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[quote=Anonymous]So much misinformation on this thread.  As someone who went through this (moving out of state after 20+ years while DD was still a second year UVA student) let me clear it up.

Residency follows the parent.  Once the parent leaves the state, the student loses in state tuition privileges after one year.  It doesn’t matter where the student went to high school, is registered to vote, has a driver’s license, etc.  All that matters is where the parent lives.

Theoretically, the student can show that she is no longer a dependent and continue to qualify for in state tuition but that’s not easy.  You have to show that you are responsible for your own self financially, that your parent isn’t claiming you as a dependent on their tax returns, etc.  a typical student can’t do that.

In our particular case, we took a risk.  Our kid had a large bank account thanks to gifts over the years from grandparents.  She changed her mailing address to her Charlottesville apartment, registered to vote their, and switched her driver’s license address to there.  We stopped declaring her as a dependent on our income taxes.  In other words, we set everything up for her to argue that she was not a dependent had she ever had to make the argument.  We don’t know if it actually would have worked, probably not, but we did what we could.

Our daughter got tuition bills electronically and we paid them through our bank account.  They never changed the bill to charge out of state tuition, but then again we never told them that we the parents had left the state. 
 never informed them that we had moved.

In the end, we got tuition bills for in state tuition and we paid them.  [/quote]

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