Many college-bound students with undocumented immigrant parents are hesitant to submit federal financial aid applications as ...

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The FAFSA was overhauled last year after Congress ordered the U.S. Department of Education to make widespread changes to the ...

Mixed-status families still reeling from FAFSA glitches Despite the barriers they face in applying to college, hundreds of thousands of students from mixed-status families submit applications for ...

"He had to move out of his dorm." RELATED: FAFSA delays prompt concerns, stress and in some cases — unenrollment Thousands of students nationwide faced similar challenges after the U.S ...

Yet the FAFSA bill sailed through Congress despite political gridlock. Widespread glitches and delays this year with the new version of the FAFSA, which millions of students rely on annually to ...

U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, who championed the law that created the new FAFSA, said the form is no longer plagued by the problems ...

The Washington Democrat negotiated an act in 2020 meant to simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The ...

For students who have family members without the proper immigration documents, filling out the form has long been seen as a risky way to draw attention to their family’s status. House, however, urges ...

“It was a challenging time due to a lot of the delays and a lot of different challenges ... bit more difficult” to fill out. The 2024-25 FAFSA rolled out a new process, and it came with ...

It may be FAFSA’s year. The once-dreaded Free Application ... Last year’s notoriously “clunky” rollout was marred by glitches and delays and soured some students’ perceptions of the ...

A senior education official noted that one of the frequent issues encountered during FAFSA testing was that parents hadn't created their own FSA ID, which takes time to be approved and can delay ...