Non-custodial Parent Waiver -- NC parent with mental illness (schizophrenia) and living overseas

Obtaining the information from an unwilling parent is difficult for many people, whether they live in the next town or the next state or, as in your case, another country. There is a current thread by a student whose parents refuse to file the FAFSA because they don’t want to share financial information. You are in a much better situation because your mother can file the FAFSA without any information from your father and there are a lot of schools that only require the FAFSA to get FA.

You can do three things:

  1. Apply to FAFSA only schools
  2. Try to get your father to fill out the NCP forms
  3. Apply for waivers to schools that require his information