Nysed professional license

Photo IDs are mailed separately and the processing time is approximately 6 weeks. If you are currently under a conditional registration, you must provide the appropriate Board office with proof of your compliance with the continuing education requirement to complete your renewal application. In addition, if you are required to submit documentation related to child abuse identification or infection control training, you may fax it to to complete your renewal application.

Professional surveys for the professions currently being surveyed - Physicians, Physician Assistants, Dentists, Dental Hygienists, Registered Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Midwives - can be completed online at www.

If you wish to inactivate your registration online for the next registration period, you must be able to answer "YES" to the following statements: There are no more than five 5 months left in my current registration period OR my last valid registration period ended less than four 4 months ago, and I have my seven 7 character PIN which appears on the registration renewal document sent to me recently.

Please Note! If you are requesting inactive status online: If the application cannot be processed for any reason, we will notify you. There is no charge to change your registration status to "inactive" for the new period. Your registration will not show as 'inactive' until the beginning of the new registration period. Please disregard any additional renewal notices you may receive for this registration period after you have inactivated online.

The Office of the Professions Online License Verification service will show your current registration as "registered" until the current registration period ends, then be converted to "inactive" at the beginning of the new period. However, if you end a session before all steps are completed, no changes will be made to your records.

If you do not complete the transaction, your registration status will not be changed to "inactive" for the new period. Once you are inactive, if you would like to reactivate your registration status in the future, please submit a Delayed Registration Application. Start Online Renewal Address To change your address online during the renewal process, you must be able to answer "YES" to the following statements: There are no more than five 5 months left in my current registration period OR my last valid registration period ended less than four 4 months ago, and I have my seven 7 character PIN which appears on the registration renewal document sent to me recently.

If you are requesting an address change online: Once your online request is submitted, it may take 2 business days for processing. The Office of the Professions Online License Verification will, if applicable, indicate your new city and state as soon as the information is official. A registration certificate for the current registration period will be mailed to you at the new address.

If you complete an address change at the same time that you complete your registration renewal, your new registration certificate will be mailed to the new address. If you do not complete the transaction, your address will not be changed. Online Registration Renewal is for New York State licensed professionals who are currently registered and in the final 5 months of their registration period. Online Registration Renewal allows licensees the convenience of paying with a Visa, MasterCard or American Express, answering registration renewal questions, changing their address, or choosing to inactive their registration for the upcoming registration period.

How do I register additional offices online? You are required to register the main registration address. If you have 9 or fewer offices you can register them all online. You will receive a separate paper application for each additional office including for offices 10 and over. Please be certain that separate payments by check have not already been made as those transactions will not be reflected online and refunds will not be made.

To add additional office addresses, call , extension , or, for an e-mail responce contact us. Is this system secure? Our Website is secured by Verisign's SSL secure sockets layer encryption technology for all personal data input. Encryption is a way of coding the information in a file so that if it is intercepted by a third party as it travels over the Internet, it cannot be read.

Only we can read your encrypted information. The application will time out after 30 minutes of inactivity. If you are using a public or shared computer, we also recommend that you clear the browser cache and history at the end of your session. Once your online application renewal is submitted, you will be contacted by OP if more information is required to process your application and it may take 2 business days for processing applications that do not require any additional follow-up.

Your current registration status will always be available on our Online License Verification at www. I made a mistake answering the citizenship question. How can I fix this? My new registration period is less than 3 years 2 years for Medicine, Physician Assistants, Specialist Assistants and Medical Physics , why? There is a transitional registration period for your second registration after licensure or after reactivation of your registration.

This period will end with the month prior your date of birth between 2 and 3 years from the date of your first registration 1 and 2 years for Medicine, Physician Assistants, Specialist Assistants and Medical Physics. This allows the Department to adjust your triennial registration cycle to coincide with the month of your date of birth and helps to ensure speedy renewal of your registration.

The registration fee for this transitional period is pro-rated so that you only pay for the number of months included in the period. Continuing Education Requirements are also pro-rated. Thereafter, your registration periods will be 3 years 2 years for Medicine, Physician Assistants, Specialist Assistants and Medical Physics.

You can change your main address using the Online Registration Renewal. Will I get a new registration certificate for my current registration period when I change my address? Provided, further, that nothing in this subdivision shall be construed as requiring a license for any particular activity or function based solely on the fact that the activity or function is not listed in this subdivision.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, nothing in this article shall be construed to prohibit or limit the activities or services provided under this article by any person who is employed or who commences employment in a program or service operated, regulated, funded, or approved by the department of mental hygiene, the office of children and family services, the department of corrections and community supervision, the office of temporary and disability assistance, the state office for the aging and the department of health or a local governmental unit as that term is defined in section Such prohibitions or limitations shall not apply to such employees for as long as they remain employed by such programs or services and whether they remain employed by the same or other employers providing such programs or services.

Provided however, that any person who commences employment in such program or service after such date and performs services that are restricted under this article shall be appropriately licensed or authorized under this article. Each state oversight agency shall create and maintain a process to verify employment history of individuals exempt under this subdivision. The activities or services provided by a person with a master's level degree required for licensure pursuant to this article, working under the supervision of a professional licensed pursuant to article one hundred fifty-three, one hundred fifty-four or this article in a program or service operated, regulated, funded, or approved by the department of mental hygiene, the office of children and family services, the department of corrections and community supervision, the office of temporary and disability assistance, the state office for the aging and the department of health or a local government unit as that term is defined in section This section shall apply to all professions licensed pursuant to this article, unless otherwise provided.

Any nonexempt person practicing a profession to be licensed pursuant to this article shall apply for a license of said profession within one year of the effective date of the specified profession. If such person does not meet the requirements for a license established within this article, such person may meet alternative criteria determined by the department to be the substantial equivalent of such criteria. If such person meets the requirements for a license established within this article, except for examination, and has been certified or registered by a national certifying or registering body having certification or registration standards acceptable to the commissioner, the department shall license without examination.

If such person meets the requirements for a license established within this article, except for examination, and there exists no national certifying or registering body having certification or registration standards acceptable to the commissioner, the department shall license without examination if the applicant submits evidence satisfactory to the department of having been engaged in the practice of the specified profession for at least five of the immediately preceding eight years.

Any person licensed pursuant to this article may use accepted classifications of signs, symptoms, dysfunctions and disorders, as approved in accordance with regulations promulgated by the department, in the practice of such licensed profession.

Each licensed mental health counselor, marriage and family therapist, psychoanalyst, and creative arts therapist required under this article to register triennially with the department to practice in this state, shall comply with the provisions of mandatory continuing education requirements prescribed in subdivision two of this section, except as set forth in paragraphs a and b of this subdivision.

Licensed mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychoanalysts, and creative arts therapists who do not satisfy the mandatory continuing education requirements shall not practice until they have met such requirements, and they have been issued a registration certificate, except that a licensed mental health counselor, marriage and family therapist, psychoanalyst, and creative arts therapist may practice without having met such requirements if he or she is issued a conditional registration certificate pursuant to subdivision three of this section.

Each licensed mental health counselor, marriage and family therapist, psychoanalyst, and creative arts therapist shall be exempt from the mandatory continuing education requirements for the triennial registration period during which they are first licensed.

In accordance with the intent of this section, adjustment to the mandatory continuing education requirement may be granted by the department for reasons of health that are certified by an appropriate health care professional, for extended active duty with the armed forces of the United States, or for other good cause acceptable to the department which may prevent compliance. A licensed mental health counselor, marriage and family therapist, psychoanalyst, and creative arts therapist not engaged in practice, as determined by the department, shall be exempt from the mandatory continuing education requirement upon the filing of a statement with the department declaring such status.

Any licensee who returns to the practice of mental health counseling, marriage and family therapy, psychoanalysis, and creative arts therapy during the triennial registration period shall notify the department prior to reentering the profession and shall meet such mandatory education requirements as shall be prescribed by regulations of the commissioner.

During each triennial registration period an applicant for registration as a licensed mental health counselor, marriage and family therapist, psychoanalyst, and creative arts therapist shall complete a minimum of thirty-six hours of acceptable formal continuing education, a maximum of twelve hours of which may be self-instructional course work acceptable to the department.

Any licensed mental health counselor, marriage and family therapist, psychoanalyst, and creative arts therapist whose first registration date following the effective date of this section occurs less than three years from such effective date, but on or after January first, two thousand seventeen, shall complete continuing education hours on a prorated basis at the rate of one hour per month for the period beginning January first, two thousand seventeen up to the first registration date thereafter.

A licensee who has not satisfied the mandatory continuing education requirement shall not be issued a triennial registration certificate by the department and shall not practice unless and until a conditional registration certificate is issued as provided for in subdivision three of this section.

Continuing education hours taken during one triennium may not be transferred to the subsequent triennium. The fee for such a conditional registration shall be the same as, and in addition to, the fee for the triennial registration. The duration of such conditional registration shall be determined by the department but shall not exceed one year.

Any licensee who is notified of the denial of registration for failure to submit evidence, satisfactory to the department, of required continuing education and who practices without such registration may be subject to disciplinary proceedings pursuant to section sixty-five hundred ten of this title. Such formal courses of learning shall include, but not be limited to, collegiate level credit and non-credit courses, professional development programs and technical sessions offered by national, state and local professional associations and other organizations acceptable to the department, and any other organized educational and technical programs acceptable to the department.

Continuing education courses must be taken from a provider who has been approved by the department, based upon an application and fee, pursuant to the regulations of the commissioner. The department may, in its discretion and as needed to contribute to the health and welfare of the public, require the completion of continuing education courses in specific subjects to fulfill this mandatory continuing education requirement.

Licensed mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychoanalysts, and creative arts therapists shall maintain adequate documentation of completion of acceptable formal continuing education and shall provide such documentation at the request of the department.

Failure to provide such documentation upon the request of the department shall be an act of misconduct subject to disciplinary proceedings pursuant to section sixty-five hundred ten of this title.

Such fee shall be payable on or before the first day of each triennial registration period, and shall be paid in addition to the triennial registration fees required by paragraph g of subdivision three of section eighty-four hundred two of this article and paragraph g of subdivision three of section eighty-four hundred five of this article. Subsequent to the issuance of formal guidance by the department pursuant to this section, the department shall adopt regulations consistent with this chapter.

Such regulations shall not be issued on an emergency basis. Upon issuance of the report required pursuant to subdivision two of this section, the state education department shall have sixty days to issue a report to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly on any of the matters identified in subdivision two of this section provided that such report may include an analysis of, comments on, or responses to the report issued by subdivision two of this section.

The governor shall provide to the executive agencies a copy of the report required by this subdivision. In relation to activities and services provided under article of the education law, nothing in this act shall prohibit or limit such activities or services on the part of any person in the employ of a program or service operated, regulated, funded, or approved by the department of mental hygiene, the office of children and family services, the department of corrections and community supervision, the office of temporary and disability assistance, the state office for the aging and the department of health or a local governmental unit as that term is defined in article 41 of the mental hygiene law or a social services district as defined in section 61 of the social services law, pursuant to authority granted by law.

A license is valid for the life of the holder unless revoked, annulled, or suspended by the Board of Regents. The Education Law requires that individual licensees periodically register with the Department and pay a fee in order to actively practice or use a professional title within NYS. Certification requests can only be submitted by the licensee and can only be sent to the licensee or the licensing authority of another state or jurisdiction.

The Department also issues written verification of licensure confirming an individual is licensed in NYS and their registration status.