<p>I’m not sure what your question is. Certainly you can go back to CA after being in AZ or CO – just get in a car and drive back, or take a plane or a bus…lol.</p>
<p>If you are referring specifically to “residency” in terms of college tuition, you may or may not be considered a resident anywhere but CA anyway. I don’t know what the rules in CO are, but I do know that if you move to AZ for the purpose of attending a State university here, you will be classified as a non-resident while you are here. You have to live in Arizona for a full 12 months immediately preceding your enrollment in order to be classified as a resident for tuition purposes.</p>
<p>AZ will consider your state of residency to be where your parents live unless you can prove that you live completely independent of your parents. That means you have to show that you have filed your own tax returns for the last 2 years (without being claimed as a dependent on someone else’s tax returns) and that in those 2 years, you had sufficient self-generated income to cover your tuition and living expenses (including health care and auto insurance). Also, that income must be from AZ sources.</p>
<p>Here’s the direct link regarding residency issues from the ASU website:
[Classification</a> Categories & Forms | University Student Initiatives](<a href=“http://students.asu.edu/residency-classification-categories]Classification”>http://students.asu.edu/residency-classification-categories)</p>
<p>In other words, it’s really, really hard for a college student to be classified as an AZ resident unless his/her parents already live here when the student first applies for admission or the student is over 25 and has been living on their own for at least a couple of years (including a minimum of one year in AZ).</p>