UF Directory: Addresses
Students may have the following addresses on the UF system:
- UF Business Mailing Address
- UF Business Physical Location Address
- Local Home Mailing Address (*)
- Local Home Physical Location Address
- Permanent Home Mailing Address (*)
- Parents Home Mailing Address
- Emergency Contact
(*) These addresses are also required by UF.
All International Students must have their “Local Home Physical Location Address” in the UF Directory to meet Federal requirements.
To meet the federal rquirements, the “Local Home Physical Location Address” must be the actual PHYSICAL address where the student lives, it CANNOT be a PO Box, and it must be in the US.
How to add the “Local Home Physical Location Address” to the UF Directory:
- Go to
- Sign in using your Gatorlink Username and Password
- Click
- Click
- Wait for the system to validate your credentials to access the next screen.
- Click the orange text
- Click
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Select the type of address you want to create by dropping down the “Address Type” field. Choose “Local Home PHYSICAL Location Address”
- Type your address on the “Delivery line” and leave the Attention and Recipient lines blank (Remember: the “Local Home Physical Location Address” is the PHYSICAL address where you live, it cannot be a PO Box, and it must be in the US)
- If you would like the address to be published in the UF Directory, you will choose YES to that question (if you choose NO, your address cannot be seen in the Directory)
- Choose when you would like this new address to take effect.
- If you choose “indefinitely” it will take effect immediately.
- You can choose “only during these dates” and enter the corresponding dates under it.
- Click
to finish this process.
Your profile should look like this:
How to edit an address in the UF directory:
- Go to
- Sign in using your Gatorlink Username and Password
- Click
- Click
- Wait for the system to validate your credentials to access the next screen.
- Click the orange text
- Click on the check-box next to the address that needs to be changed
- Go to the end of the page and click
- Type your address on the “Delivery line” and leave the Attention and Recipient lines blank (Remember: the “Local Home Physical Location Address” is the PHYSICAL address where you live, it cannot be a PO Box, and it must be in the US)
- If you would like be published in the UF Directory, you will choose YES to that question (if you choose NO, your address cannot be seen in the Directory)
- Choose when you would like this new address to take effect.
- If you choose “indefinitely” it will take effect immediately.
- You can choose “only during these dates” and enter the corresponding dates under it.
- Click to finish this process.
How to enter an address outside the US in the UF Directory:
The same process above is used to add or edit an address outside the US in the UF Directory. The only differences to be considered are the US Postal Service delivery standard, the County, the State, and the Country.
- US Postal Service delivery standard: choose "Bypass US Postal Service Standardization". This will allow the system to accept addresses that do not meet the US Postal Service Standardization
- County: Choose "OUT-OF-COUNTRY" for addresses outside the US, or "OUT-OF-STATE" for addresses outside Florida
- State: Choose "OUT-OF-COUNTRY"or "NOT SPECIFIED"
- Country: If the Country is not in the drop-down list, choose "NOT SPECIFIED"
Phone Numbers:
Phone numbers can be added, edited or assigned to specific addresses by using the different options in the top left panel shown below:
The process is very similar to add and edit an address in the UF Directory.
All phone numbers can also be related to the different addresses in the UF Directory.
To relate a phone number to a specific address, click 
Many phone numbers may be associated to the same address.
