Move your professional license to a new state without losing income

  1. Confirm both boards and your license status
    30 min

    This step produces a one-page board record: the full names, websites, and phone numbers of your current and destination state boards, your license number, issue and expiration dates, and a discipline line. The trap is names — a board often sits inside a larger department (health, education, regulation), and the licensing division has its own page and phone number.

    1. Take out your current license document and copy the license number, issue date, expiration date, and the issuing board's exact name.
    2. Find the destination board: search “[state] [profession] licensing board”, or use your profession's national directory — NCSBN's board list for nurses, your state education department for teachers.
    3. Open both boards' websites and record the licensing or verification page URL plus the phone number listed for license inquiries.
    4. Pull your license through your current board's public verification lookup and save the status page (Nursys for RNs and LPNs).
    5. Add the discipline line: any past or pending action, consent order, or probation — boards ask about it on every application.
    6. Save the page as a PDF named board-record-[destination-state].pdf.