Application Form For Certificate Of Residence (Page 3 of 3) in pdf

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS

CERTIFICATE OF RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS

TOMPKINS COUNTY RESIDENTS: You may call with questions or concerns regarding your Tompkins County

residence application at 607-274-5545.

1) If you have been a legal resident of New York State for one (1) year AND a resident of Tompkins County for

the past six (6) months, fill out the application and take it to the Tompkins County Finance Office, 125 E. Court

Street, Ithaca New York 14850 along with the following proof:

1) ID -PHOTO (DRIVERS LICENSE)

ONE YEARS

6 MONTHS

PROOF IN NEW YORK STATE PLUS

PROOF

IN TOMPKINS COUNTY PRIOR TO CLASSES BEGINNING. (NO POST OFFICE BOXES)

EXAMPLE: utility bill, lease agreement, bank statement, medical bill, Postmarked envelope/mail.

2) Immigrants must have held permanent resident status for one year prior to classes beginning to be eligible for

resident tuition. Immigrants must also bring in the above proof, PLUS their permanent resident alien card.

3) Military personnel who have been stationed at a base outside New York State who were residents of New York

State prior to enlisting ARE considered to be residents of the State providing upon discharge from the military they

return immediately to New York State. (Must provide military proof, plus current proof of return to Tompkins

County)

4) Any person who is a member of the armed forces of the United States on full-time active duty and stationed in

this state, whether or not a resident of the state. (Must show full-time active duty card and proof of residence)

NON-NEW YORK STATE RESIDENTS:

Double tuition is charged to all students who have not been legal, permanent residents of New York State for the

past year. This includes the following:

1. Dependents of a person who lives outside of New York State.

2. International Students (holding an F-1 Visa).

3. Temporary residents (short-term job assignments or living here while attending college)

4. Non-immigrant aliens who are in the United States on a temporary basis.

***Please note this is only the application for a certificate of residency and it needs to be

submitted to your local County Government Office (Finance/Treasury) to be processed for the

actual certificate. ***

Education Law, section 6305, provides “The Chief Fiscal Officer of each county, as defined in Section 2.00 of the

Local Finance Law, shall, upon application and submission to him of satisfactory evidence, issue to any person

desiring to enroll in a community college as a non-resident student, a certificate of residence showing that said

person is a resident of said county…. Such person shall, upon registration for each college year, file with the college

such a certificate of residence issued not earlier than two months prior thereto, and such certificate of residence

shall be valid for one year from date of issuance.

Education Law, Section 6301, paragraph 4, defines: Resident – A person who resided in the state for a period of at

least one year and in the county, city, town, intermediate school district or school district, as the case may be, for a

period of at least six months, both immediately preceding the date of such person’s Registration in a community

college, or for the purpose of Section Sixty-three Hundred Five of this chapter, his application for a certificate of

residence.

In the event that a person qualified as above for state residence, but has been a resident of two or more counties in

the state during the six months immediately preceding his/her application for a certificate of residence pursuant to

Section Sixty-three Hundred Five of this chapter, the charges to the counties of residence shall be allocated among

the several counties proportional to the number of months, or major fraction thereof, of residence in each county.

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