Instate status & Married students

[Twitch]

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Just curious as to what the instate status becomes of married students whose spouse works full time for a year in that state. Do you, then, get in state after a year at your school? Assume you both move to this state at the time school starts and thus you initially are designated out of state (except NJ).

Probably depends from state to state but just wondering if anyone knew off hand other than NJ. Specifically, I'm looking for what happens in these states:

FL

OK

WV

IL

MI

Are you out of state for the full 4 years or is there a possibility you become in state for tuition purposes?

 

[mshheaddoc]

Just curious as to what the instate status becomes of married students whose spouse works full time for a year in that state. Do you, then, get in state after a year at your school? Assume you both move to this state at the time school starts and thus you initially are designated out of state (except NJ).

Probably depends from state to state but just wondering if anyone knew off hand other than NJ. Specifically, I'm looking for what happens in these states:

FL

OK

WV

IL

MI

Are you out of state for the full 4 years or is there a possibility you become in state for tuition purposes?

Ok for Oklahoma ... here is a copy of the Oklahoma State Regency for Higher Education. Its the document all public schools in OK have to follow.

It states on bottom of page 4

Section VIII. FULL-TIME PROFESSIONAL PRACTITIONER OR WORKER
An individual who provides evidence of having come to Oklahoma to practice a
profession on a full-time basis, conduct a business full time, or work on a full-time basis
shall be immediately declared an Oklahoma resident along with his/her spouse and
dependent children without the 12 month domiciliary requirement so long as they
continue in such full-time employment capacity or until such time that they establish
residency as described in Section II of this policy.

With that said ... I am unsure of how strictly that is followed or if the CHS has a separate policy as their policy states

Independent students:
An independent student must have lived in Oklahoma, in some capacity other than as a full-time student at a post-secondary institution, for a period of at least twelve continuous months prior to matriculation.

Under this definition it doesn't make a difference about your spouse and something tells me that this is the "rule" they go by.

Honestly call OSU-COM financial aid and they can answer your questions. Maybe someone who was in the same situation as yourself might know. If the case is after your spouse is working fulltime, etc and you get residency status I have to tell a few people!

 

[Nate]

Residency for the purposes of schools is different from residency for the purpose of the state itself. Schools make up their own rules. If you want an absolute answer you should pick up the phone and call the schools, you could have an answer within a few minutes. Here, even if someone tells you something you can't be sure and plan your life around it so please call the schools.

 

[Hoberto]

Like Nate said, different schools do different things. Even at the same school different people will tell you different things. Typically you have to prove that you didn't just move to get in-state tuition. At MSU I was told that we'd have to purchase property and my spouse would have to get a full-time position in MI that couldn't just be transferred back to OH. Another person at MSU stated that all we'd have to do is show them a mortgage and the job part if unnecessary.

AT WVSOM, I was told that owning property and having a job in WV wouldn't be enough to get in-state residency. I was told that we'd have to either have a child while living in the state or enroll a child into a WV school system. I only asked one person, who knows what the next admissions person might have said.

I would try to get a hold of their residency regulations in writing in addition to calling. This should be on the web somewhere for each of the schools.

You should definitely worry about residency issues after visiting the schools. Don't try to plan you education around residency. There are an awful lot of problems that could come up. For instance, say you buy a house near the school, do your 2 yrs of sciences and then find out that your 3rd/4th years will be on the other side of the state 4+ hours away?

 

[OSUdoc08]

Ok for Oklahoma ... here is a copy of the Oklahoma State Regency for Higher Education. Its the document all public schools in OK have to follow.

It states on bottom of page 4


With that said ... I am unsure of how strictly that is followed or if the CHS has a separate policy as their policy states
Under this definition it doesn't make a difference about your spouse and something tells me that this is the "rule" they go by.

Honestly call OSU-COM financial aid and they can answer your questions. Maybe someone who was in the same situation as yourself might know. If the case is after your spouse is working fulltime, etc and you get residency status I have to tell a few people!

At OSU-COM, you must become a resident by working full-time for a year or marry/be married to a resident. If she becomes a resident, then you would then qualify.

 

[djc1981]

Since WVSOM is a publicly-funded school, I know that they have fairly stringent rules on who is considered in-state. The differences in tuition between the two is approx. 26K, so you can see why they are reluctant to let that slide by.

 

[bbgirl]

When I asked at WVSOM, the finanical aid person told me that the married thing only works if you get married to a resident of WV, which I took to mean either pick one who lives there or have your S.O. move there, become a resident, then get married to him/her. I am not sure whether the second is accepted, though. And if so, you need to base your Fafsa off of the combined income of both of you and all the marital assets probably have to be joined. This is to try to keep doctors in the state. They figure if you marry a resident, you will practice there just like they assume that for student residents. I do know that you cannot gain residency through yourself if you are not a resident at the time of application. Lots of loopholes. Make sure though before trying anything you only "think" will work.