<p>For the vast majority of the expat US parents I am familiar with from a large international high school outside of Paris, (which sends dozens of kids to US colleges very year) the applicants were asked to fill in the “international aid forms” as opposed to the forms for US residents. Most of them supplied no FAFSAs as they had stopped filing US tax forms altogether. They were asked to provide verification of income based on translated french income tax forms and list of assets. Even if US tax forms were available for some, they could not serve as a basis for aid awards because the income and AGI were essentially meaningless. The financial aid office evaluated the applicants’ needs using the same methodology as it does for small business owners for whom individual income tax forms are largely useless. It should be noted that an increasing amount of colleges award aid to internationals, a few on the same terms as US residents.</p>