Selective Service Registration Fafsa. View our news section for more information. The gender question on the free application for federal student aid (fafsa) triggers the selective service registration requirements.
Selective service registration is required by law as the first part of a fair and equitable system that, if authorized by the president and congress, would rapidly provide personnel to the department of defense while at the same time providing for an alternative service program for conscientious objectors. The selective service system was established in 1917 to administer the draft and maintain an updated database of potential service members in times of no draft. The results will include the selective service number and the date registered.
The selective service site includes a form that may be used to check a man’s selective service registration.
If you can't find the card, you can use the selective service's online database to access your number. Fafsa selective service guidelines state that a male student can register with selective service as early as a month before his 18th birthday. Registration with selective service must be completed between the ages of 18 through 25. I am not registered, but i have received a status letter from selective service.