New York Consolidated Laws, Education Law - EDN § 3304-a. Advance enrollment

A student whose parent or guardian is being relocated to the state under military orders and is transferred or is pending transfer to a military installation within the state shall be deemed to be a resident pupil of a school district for the purposes of enrollment pursuant to section three thousand two hundred two of this title, provided that such parent or guardian provides a school district an address that the student will reside within the boundaries of the district in which the student is to be enrolled.  A school district shall permit a student to enroll preliminarily by remote registration without charge and shall not require the student or the parent or guardian of the student to physically appear at a location within the district for the purpose of enrolling the student provided the parent or guardian of the student provide a school district with military orders that a parent or guardian will be stationed in this state during the current or following school year and an address within the boundaries of the district in which the student will reside and is to be enrolled.