Amanda

L Davies wrote:
    > finally, you are starting to realize entire depth of your stupidity and
    > retardation. I am glad for you.

If my response gave you that expression, you need meds.

Carlos

amanda wrote:
    > Carlos wrote:
    > [..]
    >> In KS they say the only way to pay in state tuition is to get a Green
    >> Card. I have had several meetings with people at the registrars office
    >> about this.
    >
    > You are going to get a hol of the state legislation and show them. This
    > is what happened with me:
    >
    > About 2 weeks before the summer semester started, I ran into a Turkshh
    > student on F-1 I had met earlier in Spring semester. Learning the
    > course he registerd, I offered him to get some material forma friend
    > who took that course. So when he met me to get the stuff, we talked a
    > bit more and learned that he is getting instate tuition fees with the
    > receipt of GC application petitioned by spouse, suggesting me to go
    > talk to Int'l Student Adviser. When I responded that I wasn't at that
    > stage and only had I-130 approved status, he insisted that I go talk to
    > him. He was sure that he read something that would make me eligible.
    > So he dug up those copies and gave me but unfortunately it wasn't
    > complete and I didn't see anything pertinent to my case. (Note: I was
    > on F-1 and had a family-based petiiton aproved.)
    >
    > So I went to Int'l Student office and inquired about it. The advisor
    > said that since I started on F-1, I must continue with the rate for F-1
    > instead of researching about the issue if she didn't know well. So, I
    > didn't say anything. I contacted a lawyer who answers one question ont
    > he phone and he said that it's upt to the school to implement that.
    >
    > Then, during that summer of 2002, I learned from my twisn sister in CA
    > that when a friend of hers went to the Int'l Student Office of a 2 year
    > college about changing her status to F-1 (from B2), she was told that
    > she couldn't but could attend school with that approved petition filed
    > by immediate family. At that point, I didn't know whether such a person
    > would pay instate or out of state.
    >
    > Then at the beginning of fall semester, I went to a neraby 2 year
    > colege to register for a course with a letter from my school. Just
    > casually, for my knowledge, I asked the lady there about those with
    > petition filed. I was assuming that it's only at 2 year colleges and
    > also didn't know that it was state dependent legislation. She told me
    > that it's for all schools including university. Since I didn't
    > specifically say CA or not, she was probably assume that I knew that
    > they have it for Texas too. At that point, I was just assuming that
    > it's all over US.
    >
    > I specifically asked her for my case and she said I am supposed to get
    > it. She had that in this case, I need to go to the registra at her
    > shcool to register for a course and that her office won't handle mine.
    > In another word, I would be a domestic student. At that moment, the
    > Int'l Student Advisor, a very nice African-American man among all Int'l
    > Student Advisor I have seen, arrived and took me to the registrar. The
    > registrar acted reluctantly despite this man's assurance and so he
    > offered to send a link to the legislation to him and me both. (THERE I
    > READ ABOUT H1 TOO.)
    >
    > That's how I learned that it was passed earlier year in Julky 2001.
    > Our Int'l Student Office didn't post such info and I only found out
    > accidentally.
    >
    > So now, I went to the registrar's office of my school, not Int'l
    > Student office and was ready to challenge but when the assitant to the
    > Registrat came out and sawthe paper I was holing in my hand, she
    > immediately said "You can have instate tuition fee" and I responded
    > "Finally, someone competent".
    >
    > Of course, I went to the Dean of Student and complained about that
    > Int'l Student Adviser kept the information from me even when I went to
    > her before summer. (I remembred the date because it was a Tuesday of
    > the week before the class starts; Also, they had a log book and I
    > signed the log book waiting to meet that advisor.) She transferred me
    > to another office and there, they first gave me the crap that it was
    > published on the Bulletin in Int'l Student Office and also was on news
    > letter pamphlet was sent to all F-1 student. I calmly said I want
    > acopy of that panphlet and they knew, they ccouldn't mess with me and
    > so she asked how many students are int he same situation as mine. How
    > was I supposed to know that and so I said "I don't know". And they
    > refunded my money for that summer only, not for the previuos 2 semester
    > before that.
    >
    >
    > With the state ligislation, the school must oblige. So if your state
    > has THAT LEGISLATION, you let the school know that you have that info,
    > your school cannot won't play games with you.
    >

Thanks for the whole story, I will try to fight them again, currently I
am taking some time off from school because I am too busy and can't find
any fun classes but when I go back in a couple of semesters I will talk
to them again or I will be at the i485 stage and they might give me
in-state tuition anyways!