If you do marry for convenience and then divorce, I’d like to be a fly on the wall as you explain to your future 2nd fiancé that 2nd marriage is a “real” marriage and not a sham like your other marriage.
And some people are morally opposed to gays marrying…
It saddens me to see anyone take something as serious, as life changing as marriage and turn it into a way to make money.
And I agree with the previous poster-- why on earth would the real love of your life ever believe that your next marriage was about love?
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And I agree with the previous poster-- why on earth would the real love of your life ever believe that your next marriage was about love?
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Really? seriously?
You really think that later on, when each of these two are dating others, and those romantic (likely including sex) relationships turn serious, their partners aren’t going to believe that their romantic relationships are true?
This couple has given the indication that the relationship will be kissless…platonic. Like going to the prom with a friend. If the next year a person goes with a boyfriend or girlfriend to the prom, does the romantic partner think it’s the same as the year before? NO.
Post #20: whAT? Is this a same-sex marriage for financial aid gain between two heterosexual people?
The only thing their getting married to do is make them independent for federal aid. Any monies paid on their behalf, whether it is money for school, rent, etc will have to be reported on the FAFSA. It will not necessarily make Op or intended independent for state aid or in-state tuition.
If you click the link referred to in post 15, it will take you to the following:
Are you and your intended paying for more than half of the cost of your attendance?
Are your parents claiming you on their taxes or claiming AOC, because they are paying Qualified Educational Expenses? You have to pass this point before you get to this point
https://apply.ucf.edu/forms/forms/residency/
It looks like Florida is not going to make this easy for you
I agree with Sybbie, if through marriage they become independent for FA purposes and with their combined income and parents’ support figured in they qualify for Pell, that only covers about $5,800 of their college bill each.
Then there are also living expenses, will they be able to pay those out of work earnings while in college fulltime?
Or will parents still pay those?
Since you were going to college while establishing residence in FL, parents still supported you and will probably in the future, that all makes getting the instate residency qualification very difficult.
Lets look at some numbers
Current OOS tuition about $20,000 × 2 = $40,000
If living together, shared living expenses estimate (rent, food, utilities) $10,000
So about $50,000 total
How much of that did your parents and and your friend’s parents pay?
Tuition IS $6,000 ×2= $12,000
Living expenses $10,000
Total $22,000
If you each got EFC 0 (? depending on OP’s and friend’s income and their parents’ support) and full Pell that would cover about $12,000, leaving at least $10,000. Will you and friend be able to come up with that amount without parents’ help?
And all the requirements for instate residency would have to apply to you before you get married and before you enroll in a new semester for you both to get instate tuition.
I would thoroughly read the UCF residency reclassification form and if you think you satisfy all requirements then you could apply and provide all documentation. Then if you would get granted instate status and you two would get married you would have to apply for change of her status based on being married to you. And that all takes time and would have to be completed before you enroll for a new term if you don’t want to keep paying OOS rates. And on your income alone you probably would not be able to afford that.
Also where is your apartment? UCF affiliated housing does not qualify as bona fide domicile according to residency reclassification form
I, @JG2013, take you, MyTicketToInStateTuition, to like as a friend, use to defraud the state and university for financial benefit, and divorce when convenient, all while hoping the cute girl I meet at the rec building will understand that yeah technically I have a wife, but…
I wouldn’t do it even for colleges. There are times that I have to fill out paperwork and list how many marriages I have been married to and I’m glad I only have one.
Unless you are paying for your own expenses, you aren’t supporting yourself.
If you have been reading CC for sometime, you undoubtably have read about students who actually are on their own, but their parents are * not* paying for anything, yet because they are under 24, they are not considered independent because they lived with their parents till they were 18. Yet they aren’t asking about how to manipulate the system.
Every action that you take that is sketchy or to defraud, changes your core, and makes you less ethical.
Think carefully if you want to start down that path just for a few dollars.
But married people have a different test for ‘independent.’ There aren’t many married people whose parents still claim them on their taxes, even if they live in the basement (and these two are living away).
He has to be independent of his parents to qualify for instate residency because parents don’t live in Florida. He also has to qualify for instate residency will all requirements (domicile, fulltime work, minimum amount of income, etc) before he gets married for the spouse to qualify. Because like he said she has not been living in Florida long enough and/or been working.
The main thing that is complicating his getting instate residency is that he is already attending college there and still financially dependent on his OOS parents.
So if it’s questionable that he will be getting instate residency so neither will she.