Do I qualify for state residency in CA?

[mexdoc]

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So I went to high school in CA and then college out of state, but never changed my residency from CA. I never paid state taxes in CA when I was in college and my mother moved back to Mexico my junior year so since then I have not had an address in CA.

I have been living abroad for the past year. I left the states right after graduation. I still have a CA driver's license.

Do I qualify as a CA state resident, or how I find out if I do? Thanks.

 

[Raryn]

If you graduated from a CA high school, I'm pretty sure you can claim to be a CA in-stater. Don't quote me on that though.

 

[iA-MD2013]

they do ask whether youve been out of the state for more than 6 weeks...which you'll obviously say yes to. my guess is that its going to be very hard to claim to be a resident if youre not filing state taxes.

 

[flaahless]

So I went to high school in CA and then college out of state, but never changed my residency from CA. I never paid state taxes in CA when I was in college and my mother moved back to Mexico my junior year so since then I have not had an address in CA.

I have been living abroad for the past year. I left the states right after graduation. I still have a CA driver's license.

Do I qualify as a CA state resident, or how I find out if I do? Thanks.

Where were you born?

 

[iA-MD2013]

Where were you born?

i dont think that would help much. i was born in cali...spent most of my life in another state and came back. it took a couple years to finally become a resident. they care a lot about drivers license, car registration, state taxes, etc. not so much about where you were born.
and if your parents claim you as a dependent, your parents have to be residents of cali for you to be considered one.

 

[flaahless]

i dont think that would help much. i was born in cali...spent most of my life in another state and came back. it took a couple years to finally become a resident. they care a lot about drivers license, car registration, state taxes, etc. not so much about where you were born.
and if your parents claim you as a dependent, your parents have to be residents of cali for you to be considered one.

If OP was born in CA and lived their continuously until adulthood, then the OP is a US citizen and CA is the state of residence by default. That is UNLESS they paid taxes in another state, in which case the OP would be a resident of that state.

The foreign issue won't be a problem if the OP US citizen because he/she has to have a state of residency. So it's going to be, birth + ~18 years in CA, vs. 4 years in state X for college. CA should win easily.

 

[iA-MD2013]

If OP was born in CA and lived their continuously until adulthood, then the OP is a US citizen and CA is the state of residence by default. That is UNLESS they paid taxes in another state, in which case the OP would be a resident of that state.

The foreign issue won't be a problem if the OP US citizen because he/she has to have a state of residency. So it's going to be, birth + ~18 years in CA, vs. 4 years in state X for college. CA should win easily.

Well...here is the story:
-Born in cali
-Moved to other state
-Came back to cali and lived here for two years (payed state taxes, new address with all bills going to this address, drivers license, car registration, credit card reports only paid in cali for the past 2 years). I was obviously a resident...but they still didnt give it to me. I had to appeal a couple times before they finally accepted (this is all for the university, so i dont know if med school would be different)

Basically, I think they look for ANY excuse to deny you residency. But maybe flaahless is right...graduating form a high school and being born here may be enough. Nevertheless, it'll be a hard process to prove it.

 

[lord_jeebus]

My experience as someone with ambiguous CA residency applying to med school was that it was a separate process to apply to UCs as in-state (just put CA on the application, basically) and to qualify for in-state tuition, for which I had to send in a stack of evidence. The worst part was that the registrar would not tell me if I would qualify for in-state tuition until I had already committed.

 

[iA-MD2013]

My experience as someone with ambiguous CA residency applying to med school was that it was a separate process to apply to UCs as in-state (just put CA on the application, basically) and to qualify for in-state tuition, for which I had to send in a stack of evidence. The worst part was that the registrar would not tell me if I would qualify for in-state tuition until I had already committed.

ohh wow! that really sucks! if i was classified as a resident by a UC undergrad, are they going to make me come up with the evidence all over again for UC med school?

 

[lord_jeebus]

ohh wow! that really sucks! if i was classified as a resident by a UC undergrad, are they going to make me come up with the evidence all over again for UC med school?

I doubt it, but who knows...

 

[iA-MD2013]

I doubt it, but who knows...

yeah. cali is really a bitch when it comes to residency. but i'm pessimistic...the OP may have an easier time with it (i hope)

 

[mexdoc]

I guess I shouldn't be too optimistic then. I was born in Mexico and moved to CA when I was 12 years old. I did however call the UCSF registrar and they told me that I would be able to qualify for in-state tuition b/c I went to high school in CA, but they didn't know if the admissions committee would give me preference as in-state.

 

[batman1983]

As for me, I lived in CA since I was a child, attending K-12 and college there. However, since August 2007, I have been living in NY because of job. I contacted the UC schools in regards to residency infomation, and they said that if you lived outside of CA in one state for more than a yr on a permenant basis(ie, anything besides attending school in a different state, like a job), you lose CA residency.

As for you, I wouldnt worry. With your stats and being a minority, you would still get high benefit points for the UC schools, and they probably wont even give a **** that you are OOS.