From vedwards@u.washington.edu Fri Dec 4 10:59:33 1998 Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (root@jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id KAA38792 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 10:59:32 -0800 Received: from homer32.u.washington.edu (vedwards@homer32.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.19]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id KAA11394 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 10:59:32 -0800 Received: from localhost (vedwards@localhost) by homer32.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id KAA79204 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 10:59:31 -0800 Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 10:59:30 -0800 (PST) From: Virjean Edwards To: Discussion of Residency Issues State Wide Subject: Re: Dependent on sister In-Reply-To: <36681169.C2C917B5@tcc.tacoma.ctc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Annette, I have heard it is expensive and that you have to be 18 and under. Did they mention anything about that? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Annette Hayward wrote: > I recently had a situation where a dependent student moved from Calif. to Wash. to > live with her aunt. The aunt obtained a legal guardianship through the court, > even though the student is 20 years old, and I was then able to grant the student > resident status. This legal process did not seem to be burdensome for aunt or the > student, and it did not take a long time. > > Joseph M. St.Hilaire wrote: > > > ***Vicki: Let us be confused together then! If our chair, Virjean, is > > listening, she may want to put this case on the agenda of our upcoming > > training session. Meanwhile, I will run it by our assistant attorney > > general for an opinion and I'll shoot that out to you as well. Stay > > tuned. > > > > Joe > > > > On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Vicki Wheeler wrote: > > > > > Joe, these questions tend to confuse me because I have been under the > > > impression that a student, to be considered "dependent", must be claimed for > > > income tax purposes by either parents or legal guardians. Yet some > > > responses to similar questions in the recent past suggest that a dependent > > > student does not necessarily need to be claimed on parents' tax return to be > > > considered dependent. What about an adult sibling? > > > > > > I have encountered situations similar to this one in the past and have > > > denied residency. If there are other options available, I'm interested. > > > > > > Vicki Wheeler > > > BCC > > > > > > > ---------- > > > > From: Joseph M. St.Hilaire[SMTP:saint@admsec.wwu.edu] > > > > Reply To: residency@u.washington.edu > > > > Sent: Thursday, December 03, 1998 4:34 PM > > > > To: Discussion of Residency Issues State Wide > > > > Subject: Dependent on sister > > > > > > > > Have we discussed this one before? It sounds familiar: > > > > > > > > High school student whose parents have lived in India her entire life. > > > > She has two older siblings who have come over here to attend college, but > > > > both of them went to private colleges. Older sister has lived in Seattle > > > > several years and she has lived with older sister since June and is now a > > > > high school senior. Older sister has power of attorney but of course > > > > cannot claim her on her taxes, even though she has been little sister's > > > > sole means of support. Parents back in India have never been attached to > > > > Washington; don't have any US state driver's license, etc. Little sister > > > > works part-time, has earned more than $2,000 since June. > > > > > > > > Any chance of gaining residency by Fall 99? > > > > > > > > Joe St.Hilaire > > > > Western > > > > > > > > > > > .