The Department of Education defines 'eligible non-citizen' as follows:
The student is an eligible non-citizen if he or she is one of the following:

• U.S. permanent resident, and the student has a Permanent Resident Card (formerly known as the Alien Registration or "Green" Card)

• Conditional permanent resident (I-551C)

• Other eligible non-citizen with an Arrival-Departure Record (I-94) from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service showing any one of the following designations: "Refugee", "Asylum Granted", "Indefinite Parole", "Humanitarian Parole", or "Cuban-Haitian Entrant."

The student can receive federal student aid if he or she is a U.S. citizen, an eligible non-citizen, or a U.S. national. If the student's citizenship status has changed from non-citizen to citizen, the student should contact the Social Security Administration (SSA) to update his or her citizenship status. Otherwise, SSA may report to us that the student is not a citizen, and he or she will need to provide documentation to the school to verify the student's citizenship before he or she is eligible to receive federal student aid. For more information on citizenship status or how to update it, the student should call the Social Security Administration at 1-800-772-1213 or visit SSA's Web site at www.ssa.gov.

If the student is an eligible non-citizen, the student must provide his or her INS A- Number (or Alien Registration Number) on the FAFSA.

Retrieved from http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/fotw0506/help/ffdef50.htm 1/2008