Student: Application: Parent Residency Question Revisions

[JerPearson]

As a student I want to be asked all relevant dependent vs independent questions up front, before providing additional information that may impact my status.

Acceptance Criteria

• Changes for the 25/26 program year
• Changes apply to FT only
• Remove the highlighted response options from the parent residency question located on the Parent Information tab

• To the personal information page of the FT application, add a new category titled "Parent information"

• This category will be located after the Employment Information category

• Only populate this category if the student is considered dependent

• Add the following question to this category:

My parents are deceased and I do not have a legal guardian

• Add Yes/No response options

• If no, no action needed and student proceeds as dependent

• If yes, student should be considered independent regardless of how they answer other application questions

• Add the following question to this category:

I am estranged from both of my parents

• Add Yes/No response options
• If no, no action needed and student proceeds as dependent
• If yes, trigger an exception path

Additional context

• Re: the estranged from parent question. Currently this is a response option on the parent residency question and a "yes" response triggers an exception. I want this to be a standalone question and have the exception path already in place to be moved used when this becomes a standalone question.