I am from Libya, and I dont have the US citizenship. But I have lived in the state of washington for more or less 5 years now and studied all my high school in the US, and will be graduating from a us school. My question is should I use an international student form or a residence form ? PS im in 12th grade now
Do you have permanent residency or not?
If you are a legal permanent resident alien (green card status), you apply as a US applicant. If you don’t have that status, you need to contact each college and university that you are applying to and ask them which application you need to use. Do not be surprised if each place tells you something different. Just do whatever A asks for A, and whatever B asks for B.
No I am currently on a student visa for high school
i dont have permanent resedency but thats what i was planning on doing thank you
International student
But I have been living in Washington state for 5 years now, and i heard something about being consedired a residence in that state alone? im not sure thu
It probably wd have taken u less time to google “Washington state college residency requirements” than it took to type your posts in this thread.
Consult an immigration lawyer and give a full accounting of your situation. We cannot make any kind of assessment here.
If you are not a citizen, and you don’t have a green card, it doesn’t matter that you have been in Washington for 5 years. The schools will consider you as an international candidate for admission, but you may get instate rates, in Washington, depending on the university.
You have to check with each school. Living in Washington state doesn’t automatically make you a citizen or green card holder. Which means, you cannot apply for any US federal funding.
I called UW admission office for a similar case. Our green card application is pending. Admission official told us to apply as a domestic applicant and mention green card is pending in additional information.
USC also asked to do the same but we had to submit financial support details for USC. I think each school policy is different. We are in CA and for UC I think they will consider instate.
It is worthwhile to note about your pending GC in your app, but you still technically are an international student.
It doesn’t matter however long you lived in the states. Some states schools in certain states, however, allow non-residents to get in-state tuition under certain conditions
I’m also a GC applicant, status pending.
Unfortunately, we are considered international until the card is physically sitting in the palm of our hands. There’s no BSing admissions offices, I’ve called over 12 of them, and they all said the same thing. Granted, these were all LACs.
I believe public universities might look at you differently, but every state has a different legislation concerning this. In my state, FL, they generally would consider me instate. I got accepted to UF last year(though I’m not attending. Long and sad story, still burns) and they were going to consider me instate.
You’d have to check with your state’s law, it’s really difficult to give a general idea when they’re all different, you know? Good luck!
Thanks for the replies everyone they really help