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Institutions can use this document to verify someone's U.S. citizenship status.
What is:
U.S. Passport (current or expired)
U.S. Passport Card (current or expired)
Copy of Birth Certificate
USA, Puerto Rico (after 1/13/1941), Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands,America Samoa, Swains Island, or the Northern MarianaIslands
Consular Report of Birth Abroad (FS-240),Certificate of Birthissued by a foreign service post (FS-545), or Certification of Reportof Birth (DS-1350) issued by the U.S. State Department
Certificate of Citizenship
Certificate of Naturalization
The abbreviated name of the system that ED uses to process FAFSA data.
What is the FPS (FAFSA Processing System)?
A birth certificate will usually solve this eligibility issue.
What is U.S. citizenship?
U.S. Citizenship is checked through this government organization.
What is the Social Security Administration (SSA)?
Students' names, date of birth, and social security number must match to be eligible for Title IV aid. This is verified with this organziation.
What is the social security administration? (SSA)
A student can submit their permanent resident card to help resolve this.
What is eligible noncitizen status?
When a student's application information does not satisfy an eligibility requirement, you may find this on an ISIR.
What is a C Flag?
This is an important date to remember because it is Daniel's birthday. (and the last day an Afghan citizens and nationals paroled into the U.S in 2023 are eligible for federal aid)
For a graduate student with a previously defaulted loan, this government agency may flag your FAFSA.
What is the National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS)?
This is the part of the DHS match that is permanently "pending."
What is secondary match?
A student needs to submit a personal statement and physician certification to resolve this issue flagged from NSLDS.
What is a total and permanent disability discharge?
If third step verification is needed for an eligible noncitizen student, this system is used by schools to verify the validity of the student's documentation.
What is SAVE-DHS?
What is an eligible noncitizen (or DHS match)?
If you check that you are an eligible noncitizen on the FAFSA, this agency will verify.
What is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)?
The number of years that are subject to review for UEH.
What are the previous 4 award years?
If we receive a document that is a letter from the student explaining why they did not receive any academic credit from a previous institution, you can bet it is related to this flag.
The three possible UEH flags.
What is N, 2, and 3?
This is how long a student must enter into a satisfactory repayment agreement with the loan holder and voluntarily make payments for to regain Title IV eligibility.
What is six months?
If you didn't "just say no" and federal benefits were suspended or terminated by a judge under the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, this department may reject your FAFSA!
What is the Department of Justice? (DOJ)
If a school does not receive a response from SAVE within this amount of time it must make its own determination on the student's eligibility.
What is 15 business days?
Student's will get instructions to contact ED by calling or emailing (202.377.4600 or applicationprocessingdivision@ed.gov) to resolve this eligibility issue.
What is a DOJ hold?
A student’s eligibility for Title IV aid must not have been suspended or terminated as part of a court’s sentencing in the conviction for certain drug-related federal or state offenses under section 5301 of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988
An institution is not required to use SAVE if a student has one of these eligible noncitizen statuses.
What is:
- Citizens of the Freely Associated States
- Battered or abused spouses or children qualified noncitizens (VAWA)
- Victims of human trafficking (VAWA)
-Jay Treaty students
What a student can submit to resolve a UEH.
If you find yourself in jail and want to go to college this "file" could flag your FAFSA to colleges.
What is the ED Correctional Facility Address File?
The amount of time it takes to rehabilitate a defaulted loan by make consecutive on-time payments.
What is nine months?