NOTE: With only a few exceptions, the registration requirement applies to all male U.S. citizens and male
immigrants residing in the United States who are 18 through 25 years of age.
Category
YES NO
All male U.S. citizens born after Dec. 31, 1959, who are 18 but not yet 26 years old, except as noted below:
Members of the Armed Forces on active duty (active duty for training does not constitute “active duty” for
registration purposes)
Cadets and Midshipmen at Service Academies or Coast Guard Academy
Cadets at the Merchant Marine Academy
Students in Ofcer Procurement Programs at the Citadel, North Georgia College and State University, Norwich
University, Virginia Military Institute, Texas A&M University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
ROTC Students
National Guardsmen and Reservists not on active duty / Civil Air Patrol members
Delayed Entry Program enlistees
Separatees from Active Military Service, separated for any reason before age 26
Men rejected for enlistment for any reason before age 26
Military Related
Immigrants**
Lawful non-immigrants on visas (e.g., diplomatic and consular personnel and families, foreign students,
tourists with unexpired Form I-94, or Border Crossing Document DSP-150)
Permanent resident immigrants (USCIS Form I-551) / Undocumented immigrants
Special agricultural workers
Seasonal agricultural workers (H-2A Visa)
Refugee, parolee, and asylee immigrants
Dual national U.S. citizens
Incarcerated, or hospitalized, or institutionalized for medical reasons
Able to function in public with or without assistance
Continually conned to a residence, hospital, or institution
Conned
Handicapped physically or mentally
X
X*
X
X*
X*
X
X
X*
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X*
*Must register within 30 days of release unless already age 26.
NOTE: To be fully exempt you must have been on active duty or confined continuously from age 18 to 26.
**Residents of Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands, and Northern Mariana Islands are U.S. citizens. Citizens of American Samoa are nationals
and must register when they are habitual residents in the United States or reside in the U.S. for at least one year. Habitual residence is
presumed and registration is required whenever a national or a citizen of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of
Micronesia, or Palau, resides in the United States for more than one year in any status, except as a student who entered the U.S. for the
purpose of full time studies as long as such person maintains that status or employee of the government of his homeland.
NOTE: Immigrants who did not enter the United States or maintained their lawful non-immigrant status by continually remaining on a valid visa
until after they were 26 years old, were never required to register. Also, immigrants born before 1960, who did not enter the United States or
maintained their lawful non-immigrant status by continually remaining on a valid visa until after March 29, 1975, were never required to register.
U.S. citizens or immigrants who are born male and have a sex change
Individuals who are born female and have a sex change
Sex Gender Change / Transexual
X
X
Selective Service - Who Must Register
