Register online within 30 days of your 18th birthday at www.sss.gov/reg1.htm or at your local post office. You will receive your selective service number immediately if you register online. You will receive a card by mail confirming that number within two weeks. If you registered by mail, you will receive a card confirming your registration within 60-90 days. If you don't -- write to:
Selective Service System
Registration Information Office
P.O. Box 94638
Palatine, IL 60094-4638
Or call 1-847-688-6888
All 18 year old men must register. The only exemptions are non-citizen males who are in the U. S. temporarily as tourists, diplomats and their family members or foreign exchange students, incarcerated or institutionalized men, men on active duty in the Armed Forces and students at U.S. military academies.
If you don't register, you can be prosecuted, sent to prison for up to 5 years and fined up to $250,000. You also can't qualify for federal student grants or loans for college, job training benefits and many state and federal jobs.
Selective Service System
Registration Information Office
P.O. Box 94638
Palatine, IL 60094-4638
Or call 1-847-688-6888
All 18 year old men must register. The only exemptions are non-citizen males who are in the U. S. temporarily as tourists, diplomats and their family members or foreign exchange students, incarcerated or institutionalized men, men on active duty in the Armed Forces and students at U.S. military academies.
If you don't register, you can be prosecuted, sent to prison for up to 5 years and fined up to $250,000. You also can't qualify for federal student grants or loans for college, job training benefits and many state and federal jobs.
Last modified: Sunday, 17 February 2008, 11:32 PM