{"id":67,"date":"2026-05-07T20:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/californiamovingreport.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/for-asylum-seekers-the-path-to-a-california-education-is-costly\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T20:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:00:31","slug":"for-asylum-seekers-the-path-to-a-california-education-is-costly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/californiamovingreport.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/for-asylum-seekers-the-path-to-a-california-education-is-costly\/","title":{"rendered":"For asylum seekers, the path to a California education is costly"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Up against a massive court backlog that can drag their cases for years, asylum seekers face steep costs when pursuing their dreams of college in California.<\/p>\n

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Asylum-seeking students in California often face a double blow: they are charged higher tuition for nonresidents and excluded from most financial aid. For students and their families, this can mean thousands of dollars paid out of pocket and years of financial stress as their immigration cases remain unresolved.<\/p>\n

Before establishing residency, asylum-seeking students are charged non-resident rates, which are about three times what state residents pay for public universities and roughly eight to 13 times more for community colleges, depending on the district.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All asylum seekers are disqualified from federal financial aid. The few who qualify for California\u2019s state aid may never know their options, or face hurdles in obtaining it due to a patchwork of financial aid processes.<\/p>\n

The state\u2019s higher education systems are not mandated to track asylum seekers, making state budget impacts nearly unquantifiable during legislative attempts to expand financial aid eligibility.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI only see them struggling,\u201d said Eric Cline, social services program director at OASIS Legal Services, which supports LGBTQ+ asylum seekers across the Bay Area and Central Valley. \u201cI\u2019m always surprised (when) a few clients tell me \u2018I just graduated from college.\u2019 I think, \u2018Wow, how did that happen?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Policy changes stoke uncertainty for asylum seekers<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Asylum seeking is one of the least-protected immigration statuses in the U.S. Asylum seekers, who\u2019ve fled their home countries fearing persecution and are asking the U.S. for protection, differ from refugees, whose status is granted before they enter the country. Asylum seekers apply upon arriving in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Applicants can stay as their cases remain pending for years, though experts say the Trump administration is expediting deportations for numerous asylum seekers and ending cases before they can receive a full hearing.<\/p>\n

As of February 2026, a little over 2.3 million immigrants are awaiting asylum hearings nationwide, according to Syracuse University\u2019s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, which tracks federal activity. The most recent data shows California alone had about 169,000 pending asylum cases in its immigration courts by the end of 2023 \u2014 the second-largest backlog of any state. The average wait for an asylum hearing in California was 1,412 days at that time.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration paused asylum cases in November, creating even further delays. The administration has now allowed cases to resume for applicants from all but 40 countries. In the San Francisco immigration court system, which is popular among asylum seekers due to higher acceptance rates, a combination of firings by the Trump administration, retirements and relocations whittled the 21 immigration judges to two, according to reporting in Mission Local. Left behind is a caseload of nearly 119,000 immigration cases, the highest of any immigration court in California.<\/p>\n

President Trump\u2019s \u201cBig Beautiful Bill\u201d also established new fees for asylum seekers, placing additional pressure on an already low-income population. Applicants must now pay an initial $100 application fee plus $100 per year while their case is pending, $550 for a work permit, and $745 each year to renew the permit. In addition, a new rule proposed by the Department of Homeland Security would effectively end the ability of asylum seekers to obtain work permits at all.<\/p>\n

As they await a decision, asylum seekers are excluded from federal aid and some state financial aid programs, including Cal Grants under California law.<\/p>\n

For one asylum seeker, Carol, being ineligible for financial aid meant she had to take time off from school to work to make ends meet. CalMatters is not using her full name because she fears speaking publicly may jeopardize her asylum case.<\/p>\n

Carol did speak before the Assembly Higher Education Committee in 2023 urging lawmakers to pass AB 888, which would have expanded Cal Grant eligibility to certain asylum seekers. The bill ultimately did not pass.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She said she arrived in the United States at 17 and had spent more than six years waiting for her case to move through immigration courts, a period during which she said she was ineligible for financial aid.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had to delay my educational journey several times, including going part-time and even taking a semester off from school to work,\u201d Carol told lawmakers.<\/p>\n

Without access to aid, she said she experienced homelessness, couch surfing and at one point slept on a mattress topper on a hardwood floor because she could not afford a bed. She worked multiple jobs at a time, skipped meals and attended class without the required course materials.<\/p>\n

Her story, she said, was not new. Carol told the committee that four years earlier her brother had testified with a nearly identical experience on behalf of a previous bill that was ultimately vetoed, a cycle she argued could have been prevented.<\/p>\n

\u201cHad California taken action then, I wouldn\u2019t have had to face the harrowing experiences that I shared with you today,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Despite the barriers, Carol graduated from Cal State Long Beach and worked as a caseworker with the International Rescue Committee, helping resettle refugees and asylum seekers. She told lawmakers she hopes to pursue a law degree and become an international human rights attorney.<\/p>\n

The narrow path to college aid for asylum-seeking students<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Many asylum seekers arrive eager to continue studies they began abroad, but quickly run into what Cline calls \u201ca brick wall.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of our clients are low-income \u2026 they\u2019re almost never eligible for generalized financial aid,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you take away the financial aid aspect, it makes (college) pretty inaccessible.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

For California residents, annual undergraduate tuition is $15,588 at the University of California, $6,838 at the California State University and about $1,380 for 30 units at a community college. Students classified as non-residents \u2014 including some asylum seekers before establishing residency \u2014 can pay $54,858 at a University of California, about $20,968 at a Cal State before campus-based fees, and roughly $10,140 to $13,560 for 30 units at a community college, depending on the district. These figures do not include campus-based fees, housing or living expenses.<\/p>\n

Even when students do manage to establish residency, the cost is still steep. For the many asylum seekers who arrive in the United States as adults, they may not have attended a California school previously, barring them from qualifying for state financial aid.\u00a0<\/p>\n

AB 540, the 2001 law that exempts undocumented students from paying non-resident tuition, only applies if the student attended a California high school or community college for three years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Those who qualify through AB 540 can fill out the California Dream Act Application for state financial aid, such as Cal Grants, university system-specific grants, state loans, and the state\u2019s middle class scholarship.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The application process can still be confusing for asylum seekers whose status is not fully accounted for in the design of the application. For example, asylum seekers often have Social Security numbers for work authorization, but affirming so while answering the financial aid \u00a0 pre-screening questions leads to undetermined eligibility because the questions don\u2019t take into account the nuances of applying as an asylum seeker.<\/p>\n

Asylum seekers often require extra help from financial aid counselors, but even counselors may not know how to help navigate eligibility rules. Students often wind up seeking help from undocumented student resource centers on public campuses, which are designed to help students who lack legal residency and those from mixed-status families find aid and academic support.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kaveena Singh, the director of immigration legal services at the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, which provides legal services to low-income immigrants, noted that she herself has written letters to financial aid offices to help explain the in-between nature of the few asylum-seeking students she has served.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As an asylum-seeking student in his mid-20s, L. ended up qualifying for state financial aid through AB 540. However, he misunderstood for six years exactly what aid he qualified for. L. wished to withhold his name and the names of the institutions he\u2019s attended for fear of negative impacts on his pending asylum case.<\/p>\n

Initially, community college didn\u2019t cost him anything \u2014 but when he transferred to a large four-year university, the cost of college soared. He went to his university\u2019s financial aid office for help so often that all the staff there knew his name. It was a \u201cbig relief\u201d when he was finally able to successfully fill out the California Dream Act Application, and obtain financial aid for his summer and fall quarters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

L.\u2019s asylum case has been pending for nine years. He, his dad, mom and younger brother arrived in the United States in the winter of 2016, claiming asylum under fear of political retribution. His father organized political assemblies in China, and his mother was forced to have an abortion under the one-child policy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI just wish I could go home and visit family and friends and catch up for a good few weeks in the summer here and there to reconnect with my past,\u201d L. said. \u201cIt\u2019s like there\u2019s two separate lives, like two entities being artificially cut.\u201d<\/p>\n

L. worked throughout high school and college, and worried about affording school.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most days, the combination of family trauma and the limbo of waiting for his case means L. survives through \u201cconstant compartmentalization.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the meantime, he tries to carry on \u2014 he studies politics, and is interested in international relations and human rights.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs rough as all that\u2019s happened, the silver lining is that one day hopefully I get a passport and a green card,\u201d L. said. \u201cTo help other people avoid such a hassle will be just as fulfilling for me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Previous legislative efforts have failed<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Legislative bills to extend state financial aid eligibility to asylum-seeking students have been introduced at least twice in recent years but have failed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

One attempt came in 2019, when Sen. Ben Allen, a Democrat from El Segundo, introduced SB 296, a bill that would have extended Cal Grant eligibility to students with pending asylum applications. The measure passed the Legislature with some bipartisan support, but was by Gov. Gavin Newsom, who said that it would \u201cimpose costs on the General Fund that must be weighed in the annual budget process.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was frustrating, but I understood it,\u201d Allen told CalMatters. \u201cThe real issue is that we don\u2019t have good data. Our schools don\u2019t track asylum seekers, so we can\u2019t easily calculate the cost.\u201d<\/p>\n

UC data on asylum-seeking students is protected due to privacy policies, according to Stett Holbrook, a UC spokesperson. The Cal State system reports it has less than 500 students with \u201casylum status,\u201d which includes both those who have an asylum granted and asylum seekers, according to Cal State spokesperson Amy Bentley-Smith. The numbers are self-reported during the admissions process.<\/p>\n

In spring 2025, 13,507 students self-identified as \u201crefugee\/asylee\u201d across the California Community Colleges \u2014 up from 11,537 the prior semester \u2014 per the CCC DataMart. The data does not include a category for just asylum seekers. Students can self-identify their immigration status while applying, but asylum seekers are not specifically tracked, according to the college system\u2019s spokesperson Melissa Villarin.<\/p>\n

Four years after SB 296 failed, Democrat Sabrina Cervantes \u2014 then representing Riverside in the Assembly and now as a state senator \u2014 revived the proposal through AB 888, introduced in 2023. Like Allen\u2019s earlier bill, AB 888 sought to make Cal Grants accessible to students with pending asylum applications by creating a direct eligibility pathway outside the AB 540 residency requirements. The bill passed the Assembly unanimously but was held in the Senate Appropriations Committee last September, effectively ending its chances for the year.<\/p>\n

Cervantes declined an interview with CalMatters. \u201cMy Assembly Bill 888 would have created a new pathway for pending asylum seekers in California to apply for Cal Grant financial aid in pursuit of their higher education,\u201d Cervantes wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n

Newsom\u2019s office declined to say whether he would support a future version of the proposal, pointing instead to his brief 2019 veto message.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s nervousness around anything that involves new expenses,\u201d Allen said. \u201c\u2026 We\u2019re going to have to spend some time seeing what information we can get with regards to better data to get better estimated costs. I think that will help to better inform the conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andrea Baltodano and Chrissa Olson are contributors with the College Journalism Network, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists from across California. CalMatters higher education coverage is supported by a grant from the College Futures Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n

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