{"id":14488,"date":"2013-02-26T10:15:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T20:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=14488"},"modified":"2021-11-30T14:04:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T00:04:27","slug":"regents-approve-undocumented-immigrant-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/02\/26\/regents-approve-undocumented-immigrant-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Regents approve undocumented immigrant policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_14525\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14525\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/students2.jpg\" alt=\"Classroom of students\" width=\"400\" height=\"237\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/students2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/students2-260x154.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Undocumented students who meet certain conditions will now be eligible to pay resident tuition to attend <abbr>UH<\/abbr> campuses.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/offices\/bor\/\">Board of Regents<\/a> approved a new policy at its February 2013 meeting that will allow undocumented immigrants, under certain circumstances, to be eligible for and pay resident tuition at all <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> campuses.<\/p>\n<p>Undocumented students are students who are not U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, or non-immigrant aliens; and do not possess legal documentation of their immigration status.<\/p>\n<p>According to the policy, undocumented students who meet the following conditions shall be considered residents of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> for purposes of tuition, financial assistance, and university program participation to the full extent permitted under federal law and not specifically prohibited in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Administrative Rules:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Establish domicile as per HAR 20-4; attended a public or private high school in the United States for at least three years, and graduated from a public or private high school, or attained the equivalent thereof in the United States.<\/li>\n<li>Filed for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; or has filed an application for legal immigration status, or has filed an affidavit with the university affirming the student&#8217;s intent to file such application as soon as the student is able.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Currently, 12 other states have policies in place that allow undocumented immigrants to pay in-state resident tuition. In 2012, two states added it legislatively and two states did so via <abbr title=\"Board of Regents\">BOR<\/abbr> policy change. Four states allow these students to receive state and private financial aid.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the policy as featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilbeat.com\/articles\/2013\/02\/19\/18355-university-of-hawaii-could-treat-undocumented-students-as-residents\/\"><em>Civil Beat<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Board of Regents approved a new policy that allows undocumented immigrants, under certain circumstances, to be eligible for and pay resident tuition at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> campuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193,28],"tags":[72,61,62,63,64,65,71,14,9,60,947,59,66],"class_list":["post-14488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-governance","tag-board-of-regents","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14488"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152465,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14488\/revisions\/152465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}