I am a permenent resident and my university wants me 2 pay out-of-state tuition fees

[joannamann]

What is the name of your state? Maryland

Hi i have a big problem with residency issues.

I have been resident since 95' with my family but my parents wanted me to do my highschool in cameroon but i made sure that i always came back otherwise my green card would have been takin back. well i graduated in o6' and came straght 2 UMBC in MD as i was paying in-state tuition till after on time day i just checked and saw i was being as a non-resident. I went 2 the staff and they said the law said i'd 2 living in MD 12 months prior to admission date... well i showed them my address in MD ID, green card but they made a point of me graduating in 06' and comin for fall 06' was basically not in line with the law so i left that year and paid off. Currently in my sophomore year it was now 13 good months living in the state of maryland so i started a new petition 4 reinstatement this time with more evidence like my housing contract with the school dorm and my paychecks as a student worker in UMBC .. basically every bond i could have possibly had but they sent me 2 the school attorney. He now came with some funny reason and started goin back in 06' and now asked 4 my passport that showed i'd being comin back every end of semester in cameroon. unforn

 

[mb94]

The rules for what is considered in-state and out of state are up to the school. I'm having trouble really understanding the details of what happened because your sentences are a little confusing.

The key phrase I do understand is that you need to be living in state 12 months "before admission". You were admitted to the school in 2006. So, you needed to be spending more than 50% of the year (or however they establish it at your school) for the year of 2005.

You left and then came back a year later trying to say that you were a resident now because you lived in campus housing the previous year. 2 problems with this. The first is that just because a year has passed doesn't change the fact that you were admitted to the school in 2006. Secondly, I can't think of any school that accepts it's own dorm address as proof of in-state residency. If that was the case, all Sophmores would go ask to have the in-state tuition because they had been living there for a year.