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A student who has attended UC Irvine as a nonresident may *
Petition for Resident Classification for
any term for which he/she feels eligibility requirements will be met (see form for filing periods,
submittal deadlines, and instructions).
A resident is a financially independent adult U.S. citizen or eligible alien¹, or a minor whose parents²
are residents of California, who is present in California with
the intent to make California the permanent residence and who has manifested that intent by abandoning
all residential ties with the former state of residence, establishing those ties with California and
thereafter residing in California for a duration of more than one year immediately preceding the residence
determination date for the applicable term.
What can you do to establish residence?
- You should plan on remaining physically present in California for more than one year prior to the residence
determination date of the term residence classification is requested. The residence determination date is
the day instruction begins at the last University of California campus to open for the term (typically falling
within the last week of September for the fall term at UCI). Short absences from California prior to fulfilling
the more than one year duration of physical presence will not necessarily cause you to lose your residence; however,
students who leave California during non-instructional periods, especially during the summer months, are presumed to
be in California solely for educational purposes. A student must be able to overcome the presumption that his/her
original presence was to establish eligibility for resident tuition.
- You must demonstrate that your original presence in California has been consistent with the
intent to reside
indefinitely. Your intent to reside indefinitely is objectively manifested through the establishment of residential
ties with the state of California.
IMPORTANT: For this reason, you should begin to establish residential ties with the state of
California shortly after your arrival in California. Failure to establish residential ties with the state of California
shortly after your arrival, or the maintenance of residential ties with a state other than California during any period
for which you claim California residence, could cause the period of physical presence in California to be extended until
you can demonstrate a concurrence of physical presence with the intent to reside indefinitely.
Residential ties may include but are not limited to:
- California driver's license or California ID card
- California vehicle registration
- California voter registration
- Using a California permanent address on all records - education, employment, taxes, etc.
- Bank accounts opened in or transferred to California
- Filing a California Resident or Part-Year Resident Income Tax Return.
- Credit or memberships with California merchants or service providers.
- You must meet the requirements or one of the exceptions to the requirement for
Financial Independence.
¹U.S. Citizen, Permanent Resident Alien, or Non-immigrant Alien present in California
in a legal status allowing the student to be domiciled in the U.S.
²Biological or Adoptive parents.
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