Certificate of Residence for Community College Students

Students who attend a SUNY community college outside of their home county must obtain a certificate of residence from their home county for the community college to remove the out of state tuition charge from their bill.
Students may utilize this certificate of residence application form to obtain a certificate of residence from your home county. Please read all instructions carefully and be sure to include the proper documentation in the application to your home county.
You must obtain the certificate of residence from your home county no later than 30 days after the first day of classes at your college. Once you obtain the certificate of residence, you must promptly send it to your college to remove the out of state tuition charge.

Please note that the only way in which a denial of your certificate of residence can be successfully appealed is if the county or community college failed to take proper action under the regulations here. Simply not submitting your application within the deadline is not an adequate reason to appeal. Failing to follow the instructions to obtain a certificate of residence is likewise not an adequate reason to appeal.
Students who attend SUNY community colleges can appeal a denial of a certificate of residence by emailing cclegalliaison@suny.edu

Eligible statuses to establish domicile

A - Ambassador, diplomats and certain other foreign officials and their families
E - Treaty trader/Treaty investor, spouse, and children
G - Certain government or international organization officials and their families
H-1B - Temporary worker in specialty occupation
H-1C - Temporary worker performing essential nursing services
H-4 - Spouse or children of alien classified as H-1B or H-1C
I - Representatives of foreign information media and their spouse and children
K - Fiancé(e) or Spouse of a U.S. citizen and dependent children
L - Intra-company transferee (such as managers who have worked abroad for a branch of a U.S. firm) and their spouse and children
N - Parents and children of certain officers and employees of international organizations who were in turn granted permanent residency as special immigrants
O - Aliens who possess extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, Business or athletics, motion pictures or television (Note: O-1 and O-3 visa holders are eligible, and O-2 visa holders are not eligible).
R - Religious workers and their spouse and children
S - Crime witnesses and their spouse and children
T - Victims of severe forms of human trafficking
U - Victims of serious crimes
V - Certain spouses and children of lawful permanent residents who have a relative petition filed on their behalf before December 21, 2000 which has been pending for at least three (3) years

In addition to all of the above categories, undocumented students are eligible to receive a COR under this rule
Students are eligible to receive a COR under this rule if they:

attended an approved New York State high school for two or more years, graduated from an approved New York State high school and applied for admission to SUNY within five years of receiving a New York State high school diploma; or
attended an approved New York State program for a General Equivalency Diploma (GED) exam preparation, received a GED and applied for admission to the University within five years of receiving the GED; and
If the student is without lawful immigration status, the student submits to the campus a notarized affidavit stating that the student has filed an application to legalize his or her immigration status or will file such an application as soon as he or she is eligible to do so. (See NYS Education Law §355(h) (8)). Such affidavit shall be viewed by the appropriate campus official, and either destroyed or returned to the student. The appropriate campus official making the residency determination shall fill out a form indicating that the student has provided all the appropriate information to the campus if the student is then eligible for in-state tuition. (See attached Sample Form for Residency Determination)