From vosse@wsu.edu Wed Sep 16 10:45:35 1998 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id KAA76096 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 10:45:35 -0700 Received: from cheetah.it.wsu.edu (root@cheetah.it.wsu.edu [134.121.1.8]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id KAA02925 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 10:45:34 -0700 Received: from reentry.wsu.edu (reentry.french.wsu.edu [134.121.29.4]) by cheetah.it.wsu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA11640 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 10:45:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19980916175225.00922d38@mail.wsu.edu> X-Sender: vosse@mail.wsu.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 10:52:25 -0700 To: residency@u.washington.edu From: Elaine Voss Subject: Student from Palau I have an 18 year old student who claims US citizenship, but her parent is a citizen of Palau and therefore does not file a US tax return. The student receives Pell, Perkins, and SEOG grants and also has a scholarship from The National Treasury of Palau. Page 21 of the Residency Handbook states that "Only residents of Palau are ineligible for immigrant status for resident tuition." A State Department document states that citizens of Palau have "unrestricted access to US to live, study, work and assume habitual residence." Has anyone dealt with one of these situations? It is very confusing!! I am going to ask to see a copy of her passport which would indicate citizenship. If she is a US citizen, does the fact that she receives funding from Palau prevent her from a claim of resident for tuition paying purposes? Thanks for any light you can shed on this one. Elaine Voss, Assistant Dean of Students Office of Student Affairs 360 Lighty Student Services Building Pullman, WA 99164-1066 509-335-1464 509-335-1208 FAX email vosse@wsu.edu .