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I'm admitting this might be a dumb question, but I've looked and looked and I'm just not feeling clear on the answer to this.
DS is graduating from undergraduate this year. Will be going to graduate school in the fall.
We paid for undergrad, but now with graduate school, kid will be independent.
All info on the FAFSA website confirms that people applying for graduate school--unless there are very specific and unusual circumstances, are automatically considered independent not dependent students. So great, we don't have to jump through any hoops for DS to prove "independent" status.
Here's where I get confused.
They want the 2022 tax info. They ask if he submitted a 2022 IRS 1040. Well, no, he didn't, because he was a dependent on our taxes. So we click "no" and move on through the form.
It now looks like we are getting the end of the form and the "signature" page. Because the application said "no" on the 1040 page, it doesn't seem to be asking for any financial information. I know the new FAFSA was supposed to be easy, but... this easy? Like anyone going from dependent to independent student status just literally doesn't have to put any financial info?[/quote]

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