<p>another question: do I already have the pin? I created it, then it said it was going to do <em>something</em> . can I use it to sign the fafsa, or do we have to wait for some kind of response from king fafsa?</p>
<p>It has to go through the homeland security & social security administration checks before it is official. But you should be able to use it now to sign your FAFSA. Go ahead & do it … it will tell you if it’s not ready yet, and you can just save the FAFSA & go back to submit in a day or two. But I <em>think</em> that when you create your own PIN, it will let you sign now & then just automatically process when the “okay” comes through.</p>
<p>Just make sure you watch your in box … if you get a Student Aid Report that says your FAFSA is rejected, make sure you look to see why.</p>
<p>You should already have it, hope you wrote it down! It would have said “we will now verify your ss# and name blah blah you can only use it right now to sign the Fafsa”. Once it’s verified, you can use it for other stuff like signing your loan documents.</p>
<p>roderick - I thought you had done FAFSA before. Is this a PIN for a new student?</p>
<p>yes, a pin for a new student. i assume it is one pin per student, right?</p>
<p>Yes. Each student needs their own PIN.</p>
<p>and one fafsa / sar per student, right?</p>
<p>here is what fafsa says re the pin request that I made yesterday</p>
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<p>so if I do not have a pin, can I still submit this?</p>
<p>I created a pin. It took like 5 seconds.</p>
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<p>Roderick, I’m confused…if you are the parent and you’ve submitted the FAFSA before YOU (the parent) use the SAME PIN as for previous FAFSA submissions.</p>
<p>Each student has their own pin. You as the parent will use your same PIN for all of your children.</p>