| PublicationDate: 4/10/96 Summary: 1996-97 FAFSA Processing - Announcement #29 Author: ODAS - Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary - SFA Announcement # 29-- April 10, 1996 This is announcement number 29 in our series of daily FAFSA updates for financial aid administrators. For information on individual applications, parents and students should contact 319-337-5665. 1996-97 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) Processing Status Report A. Status of Applications as of April 9, 1996 No./Percent. Expected FAFSA No. of Paper of Paper Apps. Date to Receipt Date Apps. Rec'd. Processed Complete =============================================== Jan 1 - Jan 31 438,509 438,509 (100%) Completed Feb 1 - Feb 15 698,030 698,030 (100%) Completed Feb 16 - Feb 29 880,976 859,755 (98%) April 15 SUBTOTAL: 2,017,113 1,996,294 (99%) April 15 Mar 1 - Mar 15 977,827 722,088 (73%) Apr 15 Mar 16 - Mar 31 598,888 203,676 (34%) Apr 15 TOTAL 3,594,535 2,922,058 (81%) Apr 15 Note: Expected Date to Complete reflects the date that the Department expects all paper applications with these receipt dates to have been entered and processed by the Central Processing System. B. Reprocessed Records As reported in yesterday's announcement, the CPS reprocessed approximately 5,000 student records after a change was made to EFC formulas 2 and 5. Institutions should note that these reprocessed records will have new transaction numbers. Institutions should further be able to identify these records as they will contain comment 172, which only appears on reprocessed records. The Department has also been asked to clarify why the text of comment 172 that was reported in yesterday's announcement was different from the text that appears in the EDE Technical Reference. This comment text was changed in response to requests from institutions. The original text instructed students to "Submit this corrected SAR/ISIR as soon as possible to your Financial Aid Administrator (FAA) at the school you are attending or plan to attend." With many more schools becoming electronic, the Department was asked to modify the text so as to instruct students to "see if you need to submit a photocopy of this SAR to any of your schools." C. SSCR User's Guide The Department is pleased to announce that the SSCR User's Guide is now available for downloading from the SFA BBS. Please note that this document is not available for downloading from the Title IV WAN. D. Citizenship Documentation The Department has received several inquiries asking what is considered acceptable documentation from a student to prove citizenship. Institutions can consider any documents the student presents as evidence of U.S. citizenship. The Department is not regulating which documents are acceptable. It was suggested in the September 21, 1995 Notice of Proposed Rule Making that a student could show a birth certificate, naturalization certificate, or passport to support a claim of citizenship. In cases where students indicate they are citizens and the Social Security Administration citizenship match indicates they are eligible non-citizens, if the student is in fact an eligible non- citizen, the student should make a correction to the SAR/ISIR and provide an alien registration number so the Department can conduct a match with Immigration and Naturalization Service. Note that if the INS match subsequently indicates the student is an eligible non-citizen, no further resolution of this situation is required. Thank you for your continued support. |