<p>Could I have filled something out wrong or what?! This has happened with another application I've sent and I have no idea why and now I have to worry about a petition on top of all the other college chaos. Please help :/
Thanks in advance</p>
<p>Colleges’ rules sometimes vary from another. You should immediately place a call into the college bursar’s office to clear things up.</p>
<p>Some schools ask specific questions to determine residency, such as:</p>
<p>State of voter registration</p>
<p>State of driver’s license</p>
<p>State of car registration </p>
<p>Physical address</p>
<p>Look at the university’s website for definitions of residency. It can vary from institution. There are also usually instructions for appealing a residency decision.</p>
<p>The question is: what is the evidence to show you are a resident, e.g., where have you resided and gone to school in the last few years and where have your parents resided and worked during the same period?</p>
<p>my evidence is a california ID, I’ve been residing in the U.S. and gone to school in the U.S. and same for my parents. I think at the time the application was being filled out, it asked for my driver’s license but I don’t have one but I do have my California ID so I probably should have said so? I don’t know. what you guys have said has kind of cleared things up for me so I suppose I’ll just have to gather up my information and see what I can do. Thanks so much!</p>
<p>Give them a call or send them an email and ask why you were considered a non-resident. You may have to fill out an application, but sometimes it can be cleared up with just a phone call.</p>
<p>For example, I attended an out-of-state summer program before my senior year, which caused UMich to flag me as a non-resident despite being born in MI and living there my entire life, but a simple phone call cleared it up.</p>
<p>“I’ve been residing in the U.S. and gone to school in the U.S. and same for my parents.”</p>
<p>Are you a US citizen or legal permanent resident, or do you have some other kind of immigration status? California is reasonably generous with in-state status for non-citizens/non-legal permanent residents who have lived in that state for a certain period of time. However, if you fall into the non-citizen/non-legal permanent resident category, you absolutely do need to verify whether or not you qualify for in-state status.</p>
<p>That you have a California ID “and you have been residing in the U.S. and same for my parents” indicates you may have some issues since you did not say you have been going to school in California or that your parents reside in California or have done so for some time. For example, see the rules for showing residency for the UCs on UCLA’s site: [UCLA</a> Registrar’s Office: Residence Classification for Tuition Purposes FAQ](<a href=“http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/faq/residencefaq.htm]UCLA”>http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/faq/residencefaq.htm). CalStates are the same. You are presumed to be a resident of that state in which your parents reside and work; if that is not California for the last year or so, you are going to have problems establishing residency.</p>