When do i register for selective services

NOTE : Transgender students are welcome to call us at regarding their registration requirements if they need a status information letter from Selective Service that clarifies whether or not they are exempt from the registration requirement. Individuals who have changed their gender to male will be asked to complete a Status Information Letter SIL request form and provide a copy of their birth certificate.

Keep your original SIL and send copies to state-based financial aid institutions if needed. Status Information Letter. Who Needs to Register. Almost all male US citizens and male immigrants, who are 18 through 25, are required to register with Selective Service. US Territory Residents.

Hospitalized or Incarcerated Men. If a man is placed in a hospital, nursing home, long-term care facility, or mental institution on or before his 18th birthday, had no breaks of institutionalization of 30 days or longer, and remained institutionalized until his 26th birthday, he is not required to register.

For Selective Service to determine this exemption, the following supporting documentation is needed when you mail your status information letter request form: Proof that your dates of confinement or institutionalization are accurate. Proof that you were continuously incarcerated, or never released for any period of 30 days or longer. Disabled Men. The criteria for exemption from registration are: A man is placed in a hospital, nursing home, long-term care facility, or mental institution on or before his 18th birthday, had no breaks of institutionalization of 30 days or longer, and remained institutionalized until his 26th birthday.

Men in the Armed Forces. Full-Time Active Duty Men serving in the military on full-time active duty do not have to register if serving continuously from age 18 to age NOTE: If a male fails to register between the ages of 18 and 26, he becomes ineligible for all types of Federal and State financial aid, including Work-Study.

In this section Home Do I Qualify? Summary Selective Service registration is the way our government keeps a list of names of men from which to draw in case of a national emergency requiring rapid expansion of our Armed Forces.

Men in the U. For other exemptions and for transgender people, see the Who Must Register chart. Get a printed registration form at the post office or download the registration form. If you registered by mail, you should receive the letter in about 30 to 90 days. If you registered online, you should receive it within three weeks. The letter and card are your Selective Service proof of registration. Choose the option for receiving your own Selective Service number.

You are required to keep your registration information up-to-date until you turn Contact the Selective Service System if:. If you've already registered but don't remember your Selective Service number, you may verify it online. To do so, fill out this online verification form from the Selective Service System.