<p>Hello, I have not been able to prove Florida residency to register for community college. Im 20 years old, and they need my mothers ID, Vehicle registration, and utility bills. But the thing is I have no contact whatsoever with her, her phone is disconnected, I dont know where she lives, and i do not have a father. I currently been living in an apartment with my grandmother for the past 2 months where we split the rent. Before that, i lived with my bother for a year. I have a part time job. </p>
<p>Perhaps go back to the admissions office of the CC again. Tell them your specific hurdles. See what they recommend. Seek your county social services office or even your DMV/Secretary of State. Good luck</p>
<p>Florida bases residency on the student’s parent(s) if the student does not qualify as an independent student for college financial aid purposes.</p>
<p>You have to qualify as an independent student, which you do since 1° you haven’t lived with your parents for over a year and 2° you’ve been working.
Then you’ll be considered a resident based on your own residency and taxes, and for financial aid only what you (not your mother’s) earned will be factored into your EFC.</p>
<p>Are you certain that that is the policy at all FL CCs? It certainly is not at most colleges and universities - including many CCs. Most places require the parent information. Some won’t even permit an over-ride by the staff member in charge if interpreting residence policy.</p>
<p>BvbFtw needs to make an appointment with the Residence officer at the CC in question, and ask if an override is possible given the mother’s disappearance. A visit to the local police station might also be in order. Sometimes people vanish because they want to. Other times vanishing indicates that something is very, very wrong.</p>
<p>I admit I didn’t check the policy for all FL CC’s I checked for the State of FL in general, and they can be declared independent if they meet both criteria above. Parent information is not required if the person does not have parents (ward of the state, under legal guardianship, recgnized “independent” ie., living independently for x years and earning money on their own without recourse to parents, orphaned, homeless, etc.) However then of course OP needs to check with his/her CC :). BUT if OP does not try to be declared independent, there’s no way around the parent being “gone”. That’s why OP needs to be declared independent as well as contact his/her CC.
Based on the wording, I may be wrong, but I thought OP chose to go live with his grandmother and his mother kind said “farewell, you’re an adult now”. It sounded like mutual disinterest. Op, were there specific circumstances (relevant to this thread) explaining your estrangement from your mother - ie. does she have reason not to respond or is it just something she would do in the past too?</p>
I checked for the State of FL in general, and they can be declared independent if they meet both criteria above. Parent information is not required if the person does not have parents (ward of the state, under legal guardianship, recgnized “independent” ie., living independently for x years and earning money on their own without recourse to parents, orphaned, homeless, etc.) However then of course OP needs to check with his/her CC :). BUT if OP does not try to be declared independent, there’s no way around the parent being “gone”. That’s why OP needs to be declared independent as well as contact his/her CC.