Appealing independent student status from FAFSA?
Student was sexually or physically abused by the parents or can document a hostile or neglectful relationship with his/her parents. The student will need to provide copies of protection from abuse orders, court documents, social worker reports, doctor reports, police records, and letters from clergy, as appropriate. I’d like to point out that an eviction is a court document and would seem to be the appropriate documentation as described above. It sounds like your friend qualifies for the above exception (lack of material support of a minor is neglect) and it is a matter of documenting it. I would suggest anything that would document that her father abandoned her as a minor. As her father moved to another country without her, there has to be some kind of record for this, something that FAFSA could check.
