From saint@admsec.wwu.edu Tue Dec 21 12:45:20 1999 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id MAA69042 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:45:19 -0800 Received: from blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu (blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu [140.160.248.20]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.08) with ESMTP id MAA28374 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:45:18 -0800 Received: from uis.admsec.wwu.edu (gaea.admsec.wwu.edu [140.160.249.20]) by blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA06277 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:45:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (saint@localhost) by uis.admsec.wwu.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA08361 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:47:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:47:41 -0800 (PST) From: "Joseph M. St.Hilaire" To: Discussion of Residency Issues State Wide Subject: Re: Former military personnel In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ***It bothers me that she registered her car in NY. Did she buy it here, register it here, and then take it back there? Or did she buy it in NY? Also, when did she do that--in 1992 or 1999? If she got a WA DL in '96, did she do it out of interest in settling down here or had her NY license long expired and she couldn't easily renew it, or somesuch? Is anyone familiar with the law on the military exemption from excise taxes? Are WA residents in the military expempt from it? Yes, you must be a WA resident to vote here, but there's only a 30-day waiting period to qualify, so being registered to vote, by itself, doesn't make you a resident for tuition purposes. I'd say that if she checks out positive on the questions above, make her a resident. Most people who come to the state as military hang on to their home-state documents. It sounds like she readily relinquished them soon after she arrived. Joe St.Hilaire Western On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, JOY FITZPATRICK wrote: > This student was stationed in WA since 1992. She was discharged October, 1999. She has just obtained a new WA driver's license and a new voter's registration card. We also have a copy of her old WA driver's license from 1996 with 'MIL' for expiration date. It doesn't appear that she ever paid WA excise tax for her car registration. She also went back to New York for a short period of time and registered her car there. She maintains that she registered to vote in WA in 1992 when she was in Tacoma and that should make her a WA state resident. She can probably get a proof of that. I am not real clear on this. Do you have to be a WA resident to vote in WA? Does merely voting in WA makes someone a WA resident? > > Joe, I like your answer to Ruth Schindler and hope you can help me on this one too. And, of course, I welcome any response from all of you out there. > > Happy Holidays! > > Joy > > Pimpun Joy Fitzpatrick > International Student Program Coordinator > Everett Community College > 801 Wetmore Avenue > Everett, WA 98201 USA > phone: (425) 388-9220 > fax: (425) 388-9173 > e-mail: jfitzpat@evcc.ctc.edu > > .