2010-11 College Catalog - South Florida State College

sfccmonths immediately prior to your qualification,provided you have resided continuously with thisrelative for five years immediately prior to yourqualification. The adult relative must have exercisedday-to-day care, supervision, and control over you.D. If you are a dependent whose parents are residentsof Florida and divorced, separated, or otherwiseliving apart, your legal residence will be deemed tobe this state.III. You will not be classified as a resident for tuitionpurposes and will not be eligible to receive the residenttuition rate until you have provided clear and convincingdocumentation related to legal residence.IV. Living or attending school in Florida does not establisha legal residency for tuition purposes. Maintaining alegal residence in Florida requires substantial physicalpresence as a condition.V. You will be considered eligible to establish Floridaresidency for tuition purposes, if you are a non-U.S.citizen such as a permanent resident, parolee, asylumseeker,refugee, or other permanent status person(i.e., conditional permanent residents and temporaryresidents), who has applied to and has been approved bythe U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)with no date certain for departure. For a list of eligiblevisa categories, contact the Admissions Office.A . You will not be precluded from establishing ormaintaining legal residence in this state andsubsequently qualifying or continuing to qualify asa resident for tuition purposes solely by reason ofmarriage to a person domiciled outside this state,even when your spouse continues to be domiciledoutside of this state, provided you maintain yourlegal residence in this state.B. You will not be determined to have establishedor maintained a legal residence in this state andsubsequently to have qualified or continued to qualifyas a resident for tuition purposes solely by reason ofmarriage to a person who resides in this state.C. If you are married, making a determination of yourresidency, irrespective of gender, will include the factof the marriage and the place of residence of yourspouse.VI. If you are a non-resident, who marries a legal residentof this state or marries a person who later becomes alegal resident, you may, upon becoming a legal residentof this state (and relinquishing all legal ties to any otherstate), accede to the benefit of the spouse’s immediatelyprecedent duration as a legal resident for purposes ofsatisfying the 12-month duration requirement of thissection.VII. You will not lose your resident status for tuition purposessolely by reason of serving, or, if you are a dependent, byreason of your parent’s or parents’ serving, in the ArmedForces outside this state.VIII. If you have been properly classified as a resident for tuitionpurposes but, while enrolled in an institution of highereducation in this state, you lose your resident tuition statusbecause you (or if you are a dependent, your parent orparents) establish domicile or legal residence elsewhere,you shall continue to enjoy the resident tuition rate for astatutory grace period, which period shall be measuredfrom the date on which the circumstances arose thatculminated in the loss of resident tuition status and shallcontinue for 12 months. However, if the 12-month graceperiod ends during an academic term for which you areenrolled, such grace period shall be extended to the endof that academic term.IX. If you cease to be enrolled at or graduate from aninstitution of higher education while classified as aresident for tuition purposes and subsequently abandonyour domicile in this state, you will be permitted tore-enroll at an institution of higher education in this stateas a resident for tuition purposes without the necessityof meeting the 12-month duration requirement of thissection whether you have re-established your domicilein this state within 12 months of such abandonment andcontinuously maintained the re-established domicileduring the period of enrollment.X. You will be classified as a resident for tuition purposes(documentary evidence is always required when, inthe judgment of the reviewing officials, inconsistencieswith Florida residency for tuition purposes appear in theapplication materials and documents):A . if you are an active duty member of the armedservices of the United States residing or stationed inFlorida (and spouse/dependent children) or militarypersonnel not stationed in Florida whose home ofrecord or state of legal residence certificate, DDForm 2058, is Florida;B. if you are a full-time instructional and administrativepersonnel employed by state public schools,colleges, and institutions of higher education, asdefined in Florida Statute 1000.04 and your spousesand dependent children;C. if you are a student enrolled in the Florida PrepaidCollege Program;D. if you are a full-time employee of a state agency ora political subdivision of the state when your feesare paid by the state agency or political subdivisionfor the purpose of job related law enforcement orcorrections training;E. if you have attended a Florida public high schoolfor four consecutive years immediately prior tohigh school graduation and you enroll in a Florida26