UC Irvine Student Housing - Graduate & Family Housing

Eligibility for Residence in

Graduate and Family Housing

Full-Time Enrollment Requirement

Housing contract holders must maintain full-time enrollment at UC Irvine to remain eligible to live in Graduate and Family Housing:

Graduate students must be enrolled in a minimum of 12.0 units (including units from a TA or RA position).
Undergraduate students must be enrolled in a minimum of 12.0 units per quarter.

Course enrollment MUST be in regular UCI courses. Enrollment in courses through UCI Extension or Access (concurrent enrollment) does not count towards the "full-time enrollment" requirement.

Eligibility for Palo Verde, Verano Place, Vista del Campo, and Vista del Campo Norte:

Palo Verde Eligibility:

Graduate students, including medical students, but excluding medical residents and interns.

Verano Place Eligibility:

Graduate students, including medical students, but excluding medical residents and interns.

Undergraduate students with a spouse or domestic partner.

Undergraduate students with children.

Single undergraduates, 25 years or older.

Vista del Campo and Vista del Campo Norte Eligibility:

All single graduate students, including medical students, but excluding medical residents and interns.

If you are married, in a domestic parnership, and/or have children, you must provide the following documentation before a housing offer can be finalized:

Married residents must provide a copy of their certified marriage certificate.
Students in a domestic partnership must provide one of the following:
- State of California Certificate of Domestic Partnership, or
- Certificate of domestic partnership or civil union formed in another jurisdiction, or
- Notarized Affidavit of Domestic Partnership that includes the following: (1) each individual is the other's sole domestic partner in a long-term, committed relationship with the intention to remain so indefinitely; (2) neither individual is legally married, a partner in another domestic partnership, or related by blood to a degree of closeness that would prohibit legal marriage in the State of California; (3) each individual is 18 years of age or older and capable of consenting to the relationship; (4) the individuals share or will share a common residence; (5) and the individuals are financially interdependent.
- Click here for a sample affidavit of Domestic Partnership form.
Students with children must provide a copy of their child's (children's) birth certificate(s) or proof of custody/guardianship as well as documentation verifying that the child(ren) reside(s) with the Student.

Newly admitted Ph.D. and M.F.A. students are eligible for the Graduate Guaranteed Housing offer. Click here for more information on housing options and how to apply.

Note: Post-Doctoral appointees are not eligible to live in Graduate and Family Housing, but may apply for on-campus housing in University Hills/Las Lomas. Please direct all questions to University Hills/Las Lomas.

Palo Verde Housing Complex

Verano Place Housing Complex

Vista del Campo Housing Complex

Vista del Campo Norte Housing Complex

The table below summarizes eligibility requirements for Graduate and Family Housing communities.

	PALO VERDE	VERANO PLACE	VDC	VDC NORTE
Single Graduate Students	X	X	X	X
Single Medical Students	X	X	X	X
Married Graduate and Medical Students	X	X	NO	NO
Married Graduate and Medical Students w/Children	X	X	NO	NO
Single Graduate Student w/Children	X	X	NO	NO
Graduate Student In a Domestic Partnership	X	X	NO	NO
Undergraduates (25 years & older, married or w/ children)	NO	X	NO*	NO*

* Please note that Undergraduates who are 25 years or older may apply to live in Vista del Campo and Vista del Campo Norte but can only apply using the Undergraduate application. VdC & VdCN are only available to single students; married, domestic partners and students with children are not eligible.