STANDING ORDER 110.2 Matters Relating to Residency

Includes amendments through July 2007

1. The residence of each student shall be determined in accordance with the rules governing residence prescribed by the provisions of Sections 68000, 68010-68012, 68014-68018, 68022-68023, 68040-68044, but excluding the words "classified as a nonresident seeking reclassification" from Paragraph 1 and substituting the words "seeking classification" and excluding Paragraph 3 of Section 68044, 68050, 68060-68061, 68062 but excluding the words "including an unmarried minor alien" from 68062(h), 68070-68078, 68080, 68083, 68130, and 68132-68134 of the Education Code of the State of California. Each nonresident student at the University of California shall pay a nonresident tuition fee for each term of attendance at the University, except that such fee, with the approval of the President of the University, may be remitted or waived in whole or in part in the case of any student who qualifies as a graduate student with a distinguished record, a foreign student, a teaching assistant or teaching fellow, or a research assistant; or in the case of a nonresident student who is an unmarried dependent son or daughter under age twenty-one, or a spouse or registered domestic partner of a member of the University faculty who is a member of the Academic Senate. A student who is a spouse or registered domestic partner or child of a resident law enforcement officer or fire fighter killed on active duty shall be exempted from nonresident tuition and mandatory systemwide fees in accordance with Section 68120 of the Education Code of the State of California. A student who is the child or dependent of a deceased or disabled veteran, or who is the dependent of or the surviving spouse who has not remarried or registered domestic partner (who has not subsequently married or registered as a domestic partner) of any member of the California National Guard who was killed or permanently disabled while in active service of the state, shall not be exempted from nonresident tuition fees, but may be exempted from mandatory systemwide fees in accordance with Section 32320 of the Education Code of the State of California. A student meeting the requirements of Section 68130.5 of the Education Code of the State of California shall be exempt from paying nonresident tuition. A student meeting the requirements of Sections 66025.3 and 68120.5 of the Education Code of the State of California shall be exempt from paying mandatory systemwide fees and nonresident tuition. For purposes of defining financial independence pursuant to Section 68044, a student shall be considered "financially independent" if the applicant: a) is at least 24 years of age by December 31 of the year the applicant requests residence classification; b) is a veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces; c) is a ward of the court or both parents are dead; d) has legal dependents other than a spouse or registered domestic partner; e) is married, or in a registered domestic partnership, or a graduate student or professional student, and will not be claimed as an income tax deduction by any individual other than his or her spouse or domestic partner for the tax year immediately preceding the request for residence classification; or is a single undergraduate student, and was not claimed as an income tax deduction by his or her parents or any other individual for the two years immediately preceding the request for residence classification, and demonstrates self-sufficiency for two years. The student is considered self-sufficient if he or she had total income and other resources of at least $4,000. The two years used to demonstrate self-sufficiency are the two years immediately preceding the request for residence classification. Nonresident tuition fees shall be payable at the time of registration.
   
   
2. A student classified as a nonresident shall retain that status until that student makes application in the form prescribed by the University and has been reclassified.
   
   
3. A student classified as a resident shall be classified as a nonresident whenever there are found to exist circumstances which would have caused that student to be classified as a nonresident. If the cause of incorrect classification is due to any concealment of facts or untruthful statements, the student shall be required to pay all tuition fees which would have been charged but for such erroneous classification and shall be subject also to appropriate University discipline.
   
   
4. Out-of-State Employees and Non-University Employees at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LANL and LLNL)

   (1) An individual who is a full-time University employee assigned to work outside the State of California, or the dependent child, spouse, or registered domestic partner of such an employee, shall be entitled to resident classification for tuition purposes.

   (2) So long as the University continues to participate as a member of a limited liability company holding the contract for the management of LANL or LLNL, an individual who is an employee of such company, or a dependent child, spouse, or registered domestic partner of such an employee, shall be entitled to resident classification for tuition purposes to the same extent as if the employee were an employee of the University assigned to work outside of California.

   (3) An individual who is a full-time employee of the University assigned to work at LANL or elsewhere outside of California, or who is a full-time employee of a company described in (2) above in which the University is a principal, and who transfers without a break in service to full-time University employment within the state of California, shall be entitled to resident classification for tuition purposes. Any dependent child, spouse or registered domestic partner of such an employee also would be entitled to resident classification for tuition purposes.

   (4) An individual who is a full-time University employee at LANL or LLNL, or any dependent child, spouse or registered domestic partner of such an employee, and who is enrolled as a student in a degree-granting program at a UC campus at such time as the University contract to manage LANL or LLNL expires and the University's participation in the management of LANL or LLNL ceases, shall be exempted from payment of nonresident tuition fees for the remainder of the current quarter or semester.
   

5. The General Counsel of The Regents may implement this Standing Order by promulgating regulations in accordance therewith.