<p>He wrote the check once they started investigating him. He apparently had the means to be able to do that. He is instate for UVa so if he is any less than full pay there, UVa may need to investigate him as well in case he has done something like try to hide income or assets to decrease his EFC. If he has done goofy stuff to defraud UGA with his daughter, he is obviously capable of potentially defrauding UVa with his son.</p>
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<p>It’s NOT an impossible situation-- not even close. These kids CAN go back. They just DON’T WANT TO go back.</p>
<p>We are an American family. Our kids were taken out of the US in early childhood to live overseas because of parent’s job. The first school the kids went to was not English language. Kids have spent more time out of the US than in it. They are not culturally American. </p>
<p>Every time my work assignment finished and my work visa expired, we had to leave the host country. The kids were not allowed to continue to matriculate in ANY school, local or int’l, w/o a valid residency visa. Adios!</p>
<p>The kids cried at first, buy THEY GOT OVER IT. All of us expatriate families have to deal w this. This is the conscious decision we made for our families, knowing full well the heartache that comes w this lifestyle choice.</p>
<p>@GMTplus7
You travel a lot. Have you seen the constant corruption and violence of any third-world country? In Colotl’s example, her family escaped from Mexico’s awful conditions to make for themselves a better life in the U.S. Why would you want her to return to Mexico?
Something similar occurred in 2010. A star student gained admission into Cal but couldn’t afford it because she didn’t have a SSN. Why should these people be punished?</p>
<p>@Fedjan, Mexico is hardly a third world country. As per the World Bank’s per capita income & standard of living characterization of Mexico, it is an upper-middle income country.</p>
<p>GMT, I can’t imagine the life your kids had as being the children in an expatriate family (I assume that was because of professional reasons?) was anything like the typical childhood of the types of kids from the countries like Mexico and some of the Central American countries that are trying to get in here illegally had. </p>
<p>@GMTplus7
Its GDP may be superior to that of many other countries, but it’s still plagued by issues which the U.S. generally does not have. That’s why Mexicans migrate into the U.S. Here they’ll find better opportunities, health care, education, low income support, and so on.
Heck, one of my relatives moved into the Dallas-Fort Worth area because the Mexican government provided very little support. In her home town, her kids and her lived in a small, dark, and dirty room; they also slept on the floor and couldn’t afford utilities and furniture. In the U.S., she’s living in homeless shelters and enjoying a quality of life better than most Mexicans would ever dream of.</p>
<p>The US is not responsible for funding higher education to border-jumpers from the rest of the world, any more than GA is responsible for funding higher education to border-jumpers from outside of GA. Why is that so difficult a concept to understand? </p>
<p>@GMTPlus7 as an expat, do your kids get instate tuition anywhere, or does that automatically make you out of state for all states?</p>
<p>I don’t agree with the idea that a country is middle “class” just because they have a middle “income.” Income disparity in the world is too large, imho, to even talk about that. Americans often make the mistake of equating middle income with middle class lifestyles. But. That is what it is. </p>
<p>More on topic, do expats get OOS rates at all publics? that’s an interesting thought, to me.</p>
<p>I wonder how many other families scamming residency at UGa are sweating bullets right now? Not a chance he’s the only one. I assume this is easy if you own property in the state (which he did), but it comes down to what address is on your tax returns (which he apparently forged?), because UGa funding comes from state tax income tax payments? Or does UGa funding come from other tax payer channels?</p>
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Maybe one of Emma’s Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority sisters?</p>
<p>@CTTC Was she really a KKG? Wouldn’t surprise me if there was some drama in the sorority house that led to registrars getting an anonymous tip.</p>
<h1>AuntJulia, just a guess from looking at her FB page (she has pics of two KKG event posters). I also figured there was some catty sorority girl drama that caused one of them to “out” her.</h1>
<p>“Is the Hope Scholarship purely merit or need? If merit, what a killer deal. If need, I don’t think it pertains to this gentleman and his daughter, as he appears to be of high means.”</p>
<p>@auntjulia - The Hope scholarship is purely merit. It was put in place partially to avoid the “Brain Drain” that was happening where a lot of the smart Georgia kids were going out of state to college. It seems to have worked well.</p>
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Don’t I wish! We might be able to petition our last state of residence for in-state tuition, since we are still paying taxes there and are registered voters. </p>
<p>I think only DC kids get in-state at all publics.</p>
<p>^^^Your post is at odds with the post you quoted.</p>
<p>You are saying, I think, that as an expat you would likely have to pay OOS rates at all publics in the US or would have to work hard to get in state rates at your last state of residence?</p>
<p>@CTTC Or an ex boyfriend. Her choosing to leave the school makes me think her entire social circle was compromised. Or perhaps her father said he was’t going to give the school another dime?</p>
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Not clear whether we qualify for in-state anywhere, as we are not a residing in any state. Therefore, we can’t count on it and are looking at other school options.</p>
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<p>These people are not being “punished,” unless you feel that anyone from a third world country that doesn’t get to live in America is automatically being “punished.” Punished by whom exactly? If living in a third world country is the punishment standard, then let’s let all of Africa and India in!! In case you need an historical example of the folly of opening our naive, sniffling arms to fellow “punished” peoples around the world, just look at what happened when the US accepted any and all comers from Cuba back in the day – Miami and Florida haven’t recovered, and the first language there, as you now know, is Spanish, not English. </p>
<p>" Her choosing to leave the school makes me think her entire social circle was compromised. Or perhaps her father said he was’t going to give the school another dime?"</p>
<p>@auntjulia - I doubt she had a choice. She was probably dismissed for lying about her state residence. </p>
<p>@MichiganGeorgia All of the articles I read stressed that she left on her own.</p>