Update on my earlier comment - I just remembered my roommate had a similar issue and what worked for her was emailing FSA's escalation team directly. The address is: FSAOperations@ed.gov Include ALL details: - Full name - Date of birth - FSA ID (username only, not password) - Date verification documents were submitted - Pending school deadlines - Summary of all contact attempts Make the subject line clear: "URGENT: Verification Documents Submitted [date] - School Deadline [date]" This often gets faster attention than calling the general line.

my verification took 2 months last year lol but then they gave me like $3000 more after they fixed my SAI so maybe there's hope?? this whole process sucks

Just make sure she actually did fill everything out correctly tho. Not to be a downer but if there was a mistake and they catch it later, they could reduce her aid or even make her repay it. Double check all the indepedent student questions to be 100% sure.

One more thing - with a negative SAI, make sure your daughter still applies for scholarships!!! Some people think they don't need to with good FAFSA results, but every bit helps. And some scholarship money can be used for living expenses after tuition is covered!

my daughter had this same issue but with like 5 SCHOOLS lol. what we did was put deposit at her top 2 choices only, then when all the aid packages finally came in we just lost one deposit. cheaper than paying all 5. you could also try askin the june 1 deadline school if they can get u the package earlier so u can decide on the may 15 schools?

Just to follow up - I recommend you check if any of these schools subscribe to the National Candidates Reply Date Agreement. If they do, they're supposed to give you until May 1 to decide AND provide your complete financial aid package well before that. The fact that a school told you outright they won't have aid info before their own deadline is concerning and potentially against this agreement. You have legitimate grounds to request an extension based on this alone.

when my husband didnt get the email i just made him sit down with me and we filled out his part while i was logged in. just had him tell me all his info and i entered it. the signature was the only tricky part but we just had him create his fsa id and then he could sign right there

UPDATE: We figured it out! Turns out my husband's FSA ID wasn't fully verified yet. Even though he created the account, he needed to complete the email verification step (which he had missed). Once he did that and logged into studentaid.gov, the invitation was sitting right there in his dashboard, just like someone suggested here. We were able to complete his portion last night and submitted the full application! Thank you all for your help - especially the tip about checking the dashboard instead of just waiting for an email.

To answer your question about checking if schools received the FAFSA data - unfortunately, studentaid.gov doesn't show this information directly. You need to either: 1. Contact each school's financial aid office directly 2. Check your student portal for each school (they often have a financial aid section showing received documents) 3. Wait for schools to send missing information notices (not recommended) The current transmission issues are a known problem. According to the Department of Education, about 18% of processed FAFSAs are experiencing transmission delays to selected institutions. They're working on resolving this but haven't provided a timeline. If you confirm schools haven't received the data after 7-10 days of processing, then it's time to contact Federal Student Aid directly.

im so jelous!! submitted mine in january and still nothing. called today and they said theres a problem with my dads tax info even tho we used the irs data retreival thing?? makes no sense