Tuition Classification

Evidence of Intent to Establish a Domicile in Colorado

Your evidence of intent to be a resident of Colorado is demonstrated by the absence of ties to your former state of residence.

Actions used to indicate intent must be accomplished at the beginning of and maintained throughout the domicile year.

If implementation of these steps is delayed, the start of your one-year domicile period may be delayed. Evidence of intent must be demonstrated for one full year before resident status may be granted. It is the responsibility of the individual to provide as much information and documentation as appropriate to document intent. Several factors which are specified by law that will be considered as evidence of intent are:

Colorado driver's license or valid Colorado ID

Colorado motor vehicle registration

Permanent, full-time, off-campus employment

Colorado voter registration

Change in permanent address on all pertinent records

Payment of Colorado state income taxes as a resident

Withholding of Colorado state taxes from wages

Ownership of residential real property in Colorado

Additional documents, as requested

The following are several factors specified by law that are considered evidence of domicile outside of Colorado:

Failure to pay Colorado state income tax (if your income is sufficient to be required to do so) Filing a nonresident Colorado tax return is persuasive evidence of domicile outside Colorado

Failure to comply with any Colorado laws imposed on Colorado residents.

Maintenance of a home in another state

Prolonged absence from Colorado

Vehicle registration in another state

Residing in another state when not enrolled as a student or between academic sessions

Any other factor peculiar to the individual which tend to establish the act that his permanent home is in another state

Note: Because a domicile is defined as a true fixed and permanent home, individuals who are physically present in Colorado only on a temporary basis or here for school purposes only cannot establish a domicile merely by taking the above actions.