2024-2025 Veteran status verification

If this item is listed under your Financing Tasks in My ASU, your financial aid disbursement will be placed on hold until you provide the information requested.

Why this is needed

The Department of Veterans Affairs did not confirm that you are or will be a qualifying veteran for federal student aid purposes. Therefore, you must provide documentation of your veteran status.

Definition of a veteran for federal student aid purposes

1. You have engaged in active duty (including basic training) in the U.S. Armed Forces (the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, or Coast Guard) and were discharged or released under a condition other than "dishonorable."
2. You have served on active duty for training or inactive duty for training in the U.S. Armed Forces (the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, or Coast Guard) and were disabled from injury incurred or aggravated in the line of duty.
3. You are a National Guard or Reserves enlistee who was called to active federal duty by presidential order [as defined in Law 10 USC 12302] for a purpose other than training and were released under a condition other than "dishonorable." Note: If you were on active duty for training only, you are not considered a veteran for federal student aid purposes. Your orders must include that you were called to active duty by presidential order.

Acceptable documentation

1. A copy of your DD214 (Member 4 copy) with a character of service indicated as anything other than "dishonorable."
2. If you are currently serving on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces, you may submit a signed and dated letter from your commanding officer that states: (a) your department, component and branch, (b) that you are on active duty, and (c) your upcoming release date.
3. If you are currently serving on active federal duty in the National Guard or Reserves, you may submit a signed and dated letter from your commanding officer that states: (a) your department, component and branch, (b) that you are on active federal duty by presidential order as defined in [Law 10 USC 12302] for a purpose other than training, and (c) your upcoming release date.

Not a veteran? Find your next steps here.

Do not submit the Veteran status verification eForm. Instead, go back to your 2024–2025 FAFSA and make a correction by unselecting your response to The student is a veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces statement.

This statement is located on the Student Personal Circumstances page under the Personal Circumstances section on the online FAFSA. If you are unable to select any of the other circumstances that apply to you under the Student Personal Circumstances page, you will need to provide parent information and parent signature.

The FAFSA correction will take three to five days to process and be sent to ASU. Please monitor My ASU for updates.

Instructions

Complete and submit online.

1. Please click on the eForm below and follow the instructions provided.
2. Submit the eForm.

You can view your document status on My ASU under the Finances tab. Please allow two to three business days after you submit the eForm for our receipt to show in your Financing Tasks.