Residency classification that places every document on a twelve-month rail, cited and signed by name
Each decision rests on a complete twelve-month record, with the statute section cited.
See one case, screen by screen ↓In-State Tuition Residency Classification is residency classification software for public colleges and universities: eight agents place every domicile, tax and lease document on a twelve-month evidence rail, test it against the state statute section by section, and a named residency officer decides, with a second officer signing every change to in-state.
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Residency classification decides, for every student and every term, whether that student pays the in-state rate or the non-resident rate — under a state statute, on the student's own documents, for tens of thousands of dollars a year. The statute asks a durational question: was the student physically present in the state, and did the student mean to stay, for the twelve consecutive months before the term's census date, for a bona fide domicile rather than to attend college. Today an officer answers that question by reading a lease, a driver's license, a vehicle registration, a voter record, pay stubs and tax returns, working out what each document proves and when, and finding the stretches with no proof at all — on a checklist, with a file of PDFs.
A checklist asks whether a document exists; it does not ask whether every day of the twelve months is covered, or whether the date a document proves is the date it was signed. A license issued in September proves intent from that day forward, not from the day it expires; a lease proves presence across its own term; a tax return proves a filing status for a year that ended months ago. And when another person claims the student as a dependent on a federal return, that person's domicile governs, which means reading one page of someone else's tax return and nothing else on it. In-State Tuition Residency Classification puts eight agents in front of that reading and arithmetic, so a residency officer spends the afternoon deciding, not calculating.
Estimated split of a typical file's business days, by hand and with the agents; the 'after' column totals well under one business day — our arithmetic, kept modest, and consistent with the 10–15 business days a petition queue can take today.
Eight agents cite the statute, read every document, place it at the date it proves and argue against the answer; two named officers sign.
Noelle Arriaga, Halden ID H0418392, asks to be reclassified as a resident for Spring 2027. Here is what happens to her file, screen by screen, in the working solution.
412 residency requests are open for Spring 2027. The agents read 58 files overnight, placed every document on its rail and raised 14 contradictions; 31 need a person today, and 7 have fewer than three days of margin before the January 29 census date.
Each row says what the agents found, how many of the twelve months are uncovered, and which clock is running.
Noelle files with five documents. The original lease ended July 31, 2026 and the pay stubs stopped in March, so 182 days between August 1, 2026 and the census date had nothing proving where she lived. The stretch is shaded with the day count printed on it.
Noelle uploads a lease renewal and new pay stubs. The rail is now unbroken: presence is proven continuously from August 3, 2025 — seventeen months against the twelve the statute requires. 0 days of the twelve months the statute measures have no proof.
The proposed classification is in-state, with $26,140 a year behind it.
Every test names the section it rests on, what that section requires, what this file shows and the page it rests on. The decision is made under the State Education Code, 2026 revision, in force from July 1, 2026, and that edition is kept with the decision.
The residential lease as it was filed, with the cited line highlighted, and beside it every value the agents took from it: what it is, what it proves, the page and line, and the confidence. Nothing was accepted without a page.
The agent reads the dependents block and the filing status of one page of the parents' 2025 federal return: the student was not claimed, for 2025 or 2024. Every other line is redacted before the page reaches it and is never read, so § 41-9-3 does not apply and Noelle's own domicile governs.
The Skeptic agent reads the same documents again, looking only for what contradicts the classification being proposed. It pins page 1 of Noelle's 2025 federal return — an out-of-state address, her parents' — and does not resolve it. An officer must answer every pin with a reason code before an approval is allowed.
Renata answers the pin — the state return filed the same day carries the Calder Row address and a full-year resident status — and proposes in-state with reason code RC-03. Tuition falls from $38,500 a year as a non-resident to $12,360 in-state, a change of $26,140 a year and $13,070 this term.
"I can tell you the answer. What takes the afternoon is proving the twelve months without a hole in it."
Gil Saperstein co-signs. Only then is in-state written to the student record and the rate applied by student accounts. Both names, both times, the reason code and the statute edition go to the audit trail — and the officer who approves can never be the officer who co-signs.
"I sign a twenty-six-thousand-dollar change. Show me what covers August."
The same file, seen by the four people who carry it — what their day looked like, and what it looks like now.
Eight agents cite the statute, read every document, place it at the date it proves and argue against the answer; two named officers sign.
Runs one request end to end — statute, reading, timeline, dependency and skeptic — then hands it to the named officer, keeping the census clock on every open file.
Applies the state statute and the board rules to the file and cites the section behind every test, pinning the statute edition in force on the decision date.
Reads every document — the lease, the license, the registrations, the pay stubs and the tax returns — and extracts each value with its page, its line and a confidence.
Places each document on the rail at the date it actually proves, as a point or a span, and counts every uncovered stretch in days.
Reads the dependents block and filing status of a parent's federal return for the two tax years the statute names, and reports whose domicile governs.
Searches every document again for what contradicts the proposed classification — addresses, registrations and dates — and pins it at the date it bears on.
Writes the student exactly what is missing to close the rail: the document, the stretch it would cover, and the date it is due.
Drafts the denial letter with the sections that failed and the fourteen-day appeal deadline, assembles the appeal packet, and builds the state audit pack.
Decides with a reason; a second officer signs. The agents propose; a named person decides.
13 screens from the working solution, on its sample data. Pick one to see it large.
The census date, the clocks and the thresholds every file is checked against are settings, versioned and on the audit trail.
| Setting | Default | Choose from |
|---|---|---|
| Census date (per term) | January 29, 2027 for Spring 2027 | Set per term, and versioned |
| Student document request due | 10 / 14 / 21 days | Escalate before the census date |
| Escalation window before census | 3 days of margin | A named officer each case escalates to |
| Appeal window | 14 calendar days, fixed by statute | Locked — cannot be shortened or extended |
| Agent confidence threshold | 0.88 | Below it, a person reads the page |
| Who co-signs a reclassification to in-state | A different, named senior officer | Locked — never the officer who approved |
| Access to tax fields | Masked until opened, one at a time | Every view written to the audit trail (locked) |
| Retention | 5 years from the end of the academic year | Legal hold on anything under appeal; redaction on export |
Every figure is labelled: a target the solution is built to, an estimate, a typical published result, or a proven one.
Sources: College Board, Trends in College Pricing and Student Aid 2025 — published tuition at public four-year institutions was $11,950 in-state and $31,880 out-of-state in 2025–26, a gap of $19,930 · Florida OPPAGA report 05-41 — inconsistent residency determinations, 28% of community college students and 25% of university students first classified as non-resident later reclassified as resident, an estimated $28.2 million of tuition revenue · fourteen-calendar-day appeal windows published at public universities, counted from the notice of determination · "target" = design goal, measured in the live solution · "demo" = seen in the working solution, on its sample data · "typical" = published figures · "estimated" = our arithmetic from published inputs. Halden State University and the people named on this page are fictional — characters and sample data in the working solution.
In-State Tuition Residency Classification is residency classification software for public colleges and universities: eight agents place every domicile, tax and lease document on a twelve-month evidence rail, test it against the state statute section by section, and a named residency officer decides, with a second officer signing every change to in-state.
A state statute asks whether a student was physically present in the state, and meant to stay, for the twelve consecutive months before the term's census date, for a bona fide domicile rather than to attend college. The agents place each document — a lease, a license, pay stubs, tax returns — at the date it actually proves, above the line for physical presence and below it for intent to stay, and shade any stretch with no proof at all.
State statutes set the bar at twelve consecutive months of proven presence and intent before the term's census date — that is the student's own clock, and no software changes it. What changes is how long the decision itself takes once the documents are in: the design goal is the same day, against the 10–15 business days a petition queue can take today.
A residency officer compares a lease, a driver's license, a vehicle registration, a voter record, pay stubs and tax returns against the statute's tests, by hand, file after file. In the working solution the Reader agent cites every value to its page and line, the Timeline agent places it at the date it proves, and the Skeptic agent searches the same documents again for anything that contradicts the proposed answer.
Typically a lease or steady employment for physical presence, and a state driver's license, vehicle registration, voter registration or state tax return for intent to stay — each proving a different stretch or date, which is why the rail places every document at the date it actually proves rather than the date it was signed.
No. The agents read, place, test and pin — they never decide a classification, resolve a contradiction, close a gap by assumption, or send a letter. A named officer approves with a reason code, and a different, named senior officer must co-sign before any reclassification to in-state takes effect.
The Agentic Solution Engine builds and deploys it from your own statute, your board rules and a sample of past files, and it goes live once every quality gate has passed. We will walk you through it on your own files first.
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