From vedwards@u.washington.edu Mon Dec 28 09:57:31 1998 Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (root@jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.5]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id JAA25158 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 09:57:30 -0800 Received: from homer38.u.washington.edu (vedwards@homer38.u.washington.edu [140.142.16.4]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id JAA16058; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 09:57:29 -0800 Received: from localhost (vedwards@localhost) by homer38.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id JAA294206; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 09:57:28 -0800 Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 09:57:27 -0800 (PST) From: Virjean Edwards To: Janelle Miner cc: residency@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Public Assistance Recipient In-Reply-To: <3687B7BB.47F6@whatcom.ctc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Janelle, I have used the assistance date several times. If someone is getting assistance from the state of Washington, they have lived here for the 12 months, and all their ties are changed to Washington, I see no reason to hold up their residency or add to their financial woes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Virjean H. Edwards University of Washington Assistant Registrar Office of the Registrar Residency Officer 264 Schmitz Hall, Box 355850 (206)543-3290 Seattle WA 98195-5850 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Janelle Miner wrote: > If there's anyone out there this week, I'd appreciate your input: > > I have a student who moved to Washington in December 1997 to reside at a > pregnancy care home where she lived with her baby until June 1998. (She > then moved to another residence in Bellingham.) She applied for and > received public assistance benefits starting in late December 1997. She > bought a car and registered it in Washington in June 1998. She > registered to vote and changed her California driver's license in > December 1998. > > Normally, I would say that she declared her intent to permanently remain > by registering her vehicle in June 1998. However, the residency > handbook, page 9-10, has a statement that has me wondering. In > discussing establishment of domicile, it says "A new Washington resident > is given thirty days from the date he/she comes into the state to > procure Washington registration on his/her vehicles. This vehicle > registration act indicates that a resident is a person who manifests an > intent to live or be located in this state and evidence of residency > includes registering to vote, RECEIVING BENEFITS UNDER ANY PUBLIC > ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, declaring..." > > Can I use the fact that she has received public assistance benefits from > the state of Washington since December 1997 as the "trigger" for her > one-year count? > -- > Janelle Miner, Registrar > Whatcom Community College > jminer@whatcom.ctc.edu or (360)676-2170 > .