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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:07:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Joseph M. St.Hilaire" <saint@admsec.wwu.edu>
To: residency@u.washington.edu
Subject: Bulking up
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A recent applicant for residency here submitted about 60 pages of
documentation, preceded by a 4-page letter explaining that he was offended
that we had classified him as a non-res and that he had only stepped out
of the state for a few weeks here and a couple months there, etc., but
that he was born and raised in Washington.  And to prove his resident
status, he included, among other things:
- his birth certificate, the back of which had his baby footprints and
	beneath it the handwritten notation, "My grubby little feet first 
	touched down in Seattle, Washington"
- a photograph of his car, which he purchased in 1992 as a pile of junk;
	it had nine tires, only 3 of which held air; four large boxes of
	spare parts; he put lots of money into the car to make it run,
	which proved he's a resident; and in the photo one can clearly 
	see that it has Washington plates.
- another photo, taken from inside the same car through the front
	windshield, showing traffic and across the street a house fully
	consumed in flames.
- 1995 certificate of admission from UW, registration notice, and
	receipt for returning student and grade report from 1995.
- receipt from Les Schwab for parts and labor on his car.
- service warranty from Les Schwab.
- vehicle registration of previous owner of his car.
- many other receipts, health insurance claim documents, utilities
	receipts, etc.
This doesn't include, mind you, the 20 pages of useful documents.

My question: do you do anything to reduce the bulk of documents submitted
by residency applicants?  If everyone submitted this much junk, we'd have
to back a truck up to the office door once a week.  May feeling is that,
once submitted, that stuff is ours and that we can dispose of some of it
(properly, confidentially dispose of it, of course).  What do you do?

Joe St.Hilaire
Western

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