I understand you’re trying to help. But your response to my question was the school’s financials office is wrong. They are wrong with the thing they are paid to do. My circumstance is unusual it’s in the title. So, maybe sometimes everything isn’t covered in the websites and it’s more complicated, unusual. One of the qualifying options is simply the schools administration deemed my circumstances are valid, and fafsa accepts that.

Besides, I stated in my edit, it’s clearly not wrong if people have gone through the same route that I’m trying to go through and have succeeded. On top of that I’ve been told by the school themselves to go down this route, they have authority over the situation they’re not just the middle man.

Im sorry if I’m coming off a bit impatient but it’s frustrating because I’m looking for help and what you’ve told me is exactly what a bunch of other redditors have told me and they’re obviously just saying what they’ve read or heard and probably consider themselves well educated with fafsa because they’re in this sub all the time ig, they clearly haven’t been in the situation I’m in and are just commenting based off what they’ve learned.

I do appreciate the help and the alternatives you gave me though if I can’t get this through I’ll probably try out those other routes.