From saint@admsec.wwu.edu Fri Sep 11 07:52:23 1998 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id HAA39902 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 07:52:22 -0700 Received: from blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu (blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu [140.160.248.20]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id HAA27490 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 07:52:22 -0700 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 GAA25027 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 06:38:52 -0700 Received: from localhost (saint@localhost) by uis.admsec.wwu.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id HAA12353 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 07:53:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 07:53:19 -0700 (PDT) From: "Joseph M. St.Hilaire" To: Discussion of Residency Issues State Wide Subject: Re: Two Questions In-Reply-To: <205934FB3A2DD011BD1B08002BE6017001E67A67@email1.bcc.ctc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ***Answers below... Joe St.Hilaire Western On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Vicki Wheeler wrote: > Hello everyone...I have two questions tonight. If a student has been living > out of state for two years, moves home (with parents) but is not being > claimed as dependent by his parents, is he eligible for resident status > based on his parents' continued residency anyway? > *****Assuming he has been independent from his parents during his time out of state, he cannot be classified as a resident again until he establishes the domicile after twelve months, as an independent student, or until such time as his parents have claimed him again on their taxes and he can demonstrate that he's truly dependent on them again. If he moved back home with Mom and Dad in June, for example, and they can honestly say on their 1998 tax return that they contributed more than half of his support for 98, then he could be eligible as early as Winter 99. > Second question...a student enters WA on 8/25/97 on an E-2 visa, but has > multiple entries on the visa for Canada. The student does not obtain a > driver's license until 12/97 and does not own a vehicle. Is it acceptable > to use the 8/25/97 date as the trigger date...or the date (as I believe) > when the student took the first step toward establishing a permanent > domicile, which would be the driver's license date. > ****I'd use the 12/97 date. Obtaining the E-2 visa is a declaration to our federal government that you are here for employment purposes; it doesn't declare one's intention to become a resident of Washington. .