The Residency Manual
III. Procedures for Classifying by Residency for Tuition Purposes
A. Initial Classification.
A student admitted to initial enrollment in an institution (or permitted to re-enroll following an absence from the institutional program which involved a formal withdrawal from enrollment) shall be classified by the admitting institution either as a resident or as a nonresident, for tuition purposes, prior to actual enrollment. Particular officials or offices shall be designated by the chief executive officer of the institution to evaluate all such initial-classification cases and to assign an appropriate classification consistent with the requirements of State law and provisions of this manual.
G.S. 116-143.1 specifies certain information that must be obtained from the applicant for in-state status. However, among applicants the information needed to make a reliable determination may vary greatly, and the suggested common informational form (Appendix B hereof) may elicit far more than is needed in one case and prove inadequate as formulated in another.
Institutional officials, though, are cautioned that a questionnaire or inquiry that deletes substance of Appendix B may not prove adequate to substantiate to the satisfaction of the State Auditor a given classification and is likely to cause remand for further inquiry by institutional officials of a classification if appealed by a student to the State Residence Committee. On this point it should be remembered that the emphasis of G.S. 116-143.1, especially subsection (d), is on thoroughness of inquiry, not quickness
