From saint@admsec.wwu.edu Wed Dec 9 08:45:10 1998 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id IAA26090 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 08:45:09 -0800 Received: from blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu (blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu [140.160.248.20]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with SMTP id IAA09188 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 08:45:05 -0800 Received: from uis.admsec.wwu.edu (gaea.admsec.wwu.edu [140.160.249.20]) by blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu (8.6.5/8.6.5) with ESMTP id HAA14561 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 07:37:33 -0800 Received: from localhost (saint@localhost) by uis.admsec.wwu.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA16856 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 08:46:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 08:46:39 -0800 (PST) From: "Joseph M. St.Hilaire" To: Discussion of Residency Issues State Wide Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <67DD2D8CC31BD111A8BB080009DDDED58005F7@north.sccd.ctc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ***I will assume that the parents have severed ties with WA. I will assume the son has maintained ties with WA (still has WA DL, perhaps a car and WA veh reg). If the parents don't claim him for 1998 and he can demonstrate that he's independent and self-supporting since his return in Jan 98, I'd give it to him. Many students have not filed tax returns and yet claim to be independent. We have them fill out an income and expense form (a form I devised), itemizing all their sources of income and amounts and all their expenses, demonstrating how they supported themselves during the past year. In this case, he can probably show that his expenses were lower than they'd have been if he had been enrolled in college since Jan 98. Which means that his income wouldn't have to be so great either, and therefore didn't need to take much money from his parents. Joe St.Hilaire Western On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Myer, Marci wrote: > Okay, I could use your advice with this one. > > This person born, raised and schooled in WA until parents were moved > (Seattled based company) to Virginia in August of 1997. The son who had > completed his junior year in h.s. went along with his parents and > attended the first term of his senior year there. He returned in > January of 1998 to finish his senior year in WA state, graduating in > June. He has remained here since. He wants to begin college this > winter quarter. Is he eligible for resident fees? > > Does he meet the requirement of spending 75% of his junior and senior > years in this state? Or is the "75% of BOTH junior and senior year" > literal making him ineligible? Does graduating in June, registering in > December and starting the quarter in January meet the "enrolls in a > public institution of higher ed within six months of leaving high > school" regulation? > > Other pieces of information: He has been self supporting since he > graduated from high school. Parents need not claim him on the 1998 tax > forms. He has retained a WA driver's license. Could he be eligible as > an independent? Would I look for a minimum amount of income to prove > that? > .