In State Tuition If Parents Move Out of State?

Paying for College
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<p>My husband and I are considering moving out of state. We are currently California residents and both kids will attend UC schools in the fall. </p>

<p>If we move out of state, will the kids lose their in-state tuition status?</p>

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<p>Pls refer UC Berkeley [Legal</a> Residence Information - Office Of The Registrar](<a href=“http://registrar.berkeley.edu/Default.aspx?PageID=legalinfo.html]Legal”>http://registrar.berkeley.edu/Default.aspx?PageID=legalinfo.html)
and UCSB [Establishing</a> California Residence for Tuition Purposes, Office of the Registrar](<a href=“http://www.registrar.ucsb.edu/residenc.htm]Establishing”>404 - Page Not Found) for more details.</p>

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<p>No, if they/you are legal CA residents when they start a UC, they will remain eligible for resident tuition as long as they attend with no stops. The one thing to be careful of is:
no semester off for anything…no study abroad with any program other than the UC one.</p>

<p>My info is a couple of years old, but unless CA govt has changed that you should be fine.</p>

<p>My DD also never came to my new home for summer breaks, she either stayed in CA or took other opportunities to ensure there were no complications.</p>

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<p>This is complicated. We are California residents now and have been for over 25 years. </p>

<p>But it sounds like we can’t afford to retire out of state until the kids graduate. (Or we have to weigh the cost of living out of state against the cost of paying out of state tuition even after having paid taxes for all those years).</p>

<p>But if the kids are only minors to age 18, then wouldn’t their residency status be determinative?</p>

<p>Eons ago, when my husband went to college, after his freshman year, his parents retired and moved out of state. But he still received in-state tuition. But things may be different for UCs.</p>

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<p>To keep it simple, the key might be “Satisfy the California resident income tax obligation” from one or both parents, until the kids become independent status ([Temporary</a> Absences, Office of the Registrar](<a href=“http://www.registrar.ucsb.edu/temp-absence.htm]Temporary”>404 - Page Not Found)). Other conditions sound like easily met.</p>

<p>Looks like UCs do one-time Residence status review before freshman year, not in every year. But be prepared?</p>

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<p>Are all your kids attending UCs by fall 2010? if so, you would have done the SIR in spring 2010 and should not be asked again unless they take a stop out. As long as they go straight though, they will not be asked again.</p>

<p>I brought up the study abroad as many UC kids will use other schools abroad programs, don’t do that ;)</p>

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<p>Call the Admissions offices at your kids’ schools and get their responses.</p>