From the HESC website:
“I graduated from a university outside the United States. Will my foreign degree allow me to be eligible for State aid without taking the ATB exam?
If your degree comes from a college or university that is recognized by your home country’s Ministry of Education, you are considered to meet the requirements and do not have to take an ATB exam.”
I don’t have the time or inclination to dig around in their stupid website, but from this blurb I’d say that they do indeed offer state aid to foreign students.
The fact that Taiz has a name and the person does work at this place makes it seem true. But it could be someone is just a con and using the persons identity. We will see.
I would say the odds are good at this point. We know he didn’t sign up for selective service. We were on the verge of war with Iran, and a pretty good excuse for avoiding it would be foreign citizenship. I signed up that same summer, and made a vow to myself that I would kill hundreds of them on the battle field. I was furious with Iran and Jimmy Carter after I left the post office. Knowing this coward avoided this and is now our president is so disgusting.
That looks more like U.S. citzens who graduated with a foreign degree although it could be as you suggest