Breaking News Dreamers!: The California Dream Act AB130 has been approved! - Page 3

So we can apply for fafsa now?

The first letter of FAFSA stands for Federal. Federal is different than State.

congrats California dreamers.

Even if Congress's Dream Act has passed, you will not receive any federal aids.
Yes. You will be asked to file FAFSA, and FAFSA doesn't care whether you have a valid social security. Most of the time the school just want you to file it out. it's a standard prodecure. Just speak with your school's financial office.
FAFSA information will not be released to the enforcement, so don't worry.

Even if both bills get signed into law, I doubt it would help for grad stipends since those are given to those who participate in graduate research/teaching assistantships and are in the university's payroll system (have to sign a I-9 form).


AB130 doesn't specify that but AB131 will have a provision to develop its own financial need determination process separate from the federal (FAFSA) process because undocumented students are not able to file a FAFSA with the federal processor. This new process will replicate the federal needs analysis in its existing Grant Delivery System in order to determine Expected Family Contribution and need for these students.

Before AB130, even if UCs/CSUs/CCCs had scholarships that they accrued from private gifts, like alumni scholarships, they couldn't award these funds to an undocumented student even if the donor wanted that. Basically, AB130 just now allows for these very limited scholarships to be awarded to undocumented students. Not really a substantive change.


If you guys want more concrete information about what both bills do, read the actual bill and the analyses which go into more detail about the implications of each bill.

AB130: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/po...author=cedillo
AB131: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/po...author=cedillo

AB131 is really the Dream Act part (Cal Grants, Fee Waivers, Institutional Aid) and is currently in suspense. Please sign this petition to help get it passed: http://www.change.org/petitions/supp...ca-dream-act-2

So when is exactly Brown signing AB 130 into law.... ?

This guy is not gonna do a Schwarzenegger on us will he?

He'll be signing it (AB 130) on Monday at 1pm

and what exactly does AB 130 do?

Sadly, almost nothing. For specifics, read my post in this thread.

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