<p>I was just starting to fill out FAFSA for my son's sophmore year. His school does not require PROFILE for sophmore year but they do ask that you send tax forms via IDOC. Does the college board send the IDOC docs to folks that don't do PROFILE? Is there a link that will take me to the IDOC info on the college board's site that I'm just not seeing? Or will my son's college request the college board send us the IDOC info? I was just hoping to get it all done this weekend...</p>
<p>Good question....please let us know if schools that do NOT use the PROFILE can use the IDOC. Now that's a question I've never seen here before!!</p>
<p>I will let you know, I may call the finaid office of the college on Monday morning.</p>
<p>I called the finaid office of my son's college today & was told that we'd be receiving an email with the IDOC info from the collegeboard. I pointed out that I'd changed my email address since last year(PROFILE is required for incoming students but not continuing students) and was told it would go to my son's college email address. We shall see. Of course they also told me that I would also have to get my son's non-custodial parent's taxes to include with mine. Yeh, right. (But the non-custodial parent doesn't do FAFSA?????? & neither one of us has to do PROFILE this year) I'm really confused. & I'm just going to wait and see if the IDOC info appears from the Collegeboard.</p>
<p>Just a followup, I just did a little more research and colleges that don't use PROFILE can use IDOC. Colleges send IDOC a list of email addresses of the students to be contacted and then IDOC emails the students and requests documents. IDOC then processes documents for the college.</p>
<p>oakland,</p>
<p>Don't worry it will be ok. The good thing about being a returning student is that the deadlines are later(at my D's school IDOC info is not due until 4/15).</p>
<p>you can go to the idoc website or do a google search for IDOC COLLEGE BOARD:</p>
<p>put in your son's ss# and dob to see if the information is there.</p>
<p>Once you log in, you will see the instructions</p>
<p>Is this your first time here? Follow this step-by-step guide.
First, print and thoroughly read your requirements: </p>
<p>IDOC Requirements</p>
<p>Next, print your Cover Sheet. This is a very important control document. Please carefully follow the directions for printing it. </p>
<p>IDOC Cover Sheet</p>
<p>If you have any additional requirements you can print them here: </p>
<p>Non-tax Filer's Statement
Verification Worksheet
Noncustodial Parent's Statement
Business/Farm Supplement
Institution Specific Documents
Come back after you've submitted your IDOC packet, and you can check its status here:
Check Status</p>
<p>read the instructions and print out the info as it pertains to your son.</p>
<p>YOur NCP would log on to the idoc for non-custodial parents </p>
<p>hope this helps</p>
<p>thanks, sybbie,
my son actually forwarded an email today from the IDOC requesting all the stuff! It sure feels like there must be a simpler way to do this once the kids are off at school as one of the forms requires the kid's signature as well as mine. Don't they know he's not at home any more? Oh well. That's why we still have the USPS...</p>
<p>If your forms are due in april, hopefully you can get him to sign them if he comes your way for spring break sometime in march:D</p>
<p>Ah yes...signed returns. Our kids are filing electronically...so they are not "signing" their returns with a pen. We will print them out so they can do so for the colleges.</p>
<p>sybbie, thanks! I'm in the midst of putting my house on the market & I'm hoping we'll be packed up and moving out of Oakland by his spring break..I've found a house I hope to make an offer on (Ekk!) (I have got to get out of Oakland..14 police cars, on my street, cops out of cars with guns drawn and it doesn't even make the evening news ..sorry but I'm so tired of the crime here!) I've got to get these forms out so I don't lose them in the boxes that are piling up around me!</p>