University of North Texas officials reportedly have notified students identified as not meeting residency requirements with a deadline: They can confirm their status by Aug. 8 and continue paying in-state tuition.

With the Department of Justice ruling in June to reverse the Texas Dream Act, Texas public universities can no longer grant in-state tuition to Texas residents who don’t have legal status, even if they’ve been in the state their whole lives. Students who can’t confirm their citizenship by the deadline will have to pay out-of-state tuition.

The North Texas Daily reported late Tuesday that Chris Foster, UNT vice president of the Division of Enrollment, sent a notice Saturday to students identified as not meeting residency status.

The Denton Record-Chronicle requested an interv

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