Alaska

The pathways, as the board describes them

Who must not use this form. The instructions divert two groups before setting out any requirement. A former Alaska licensee is sent elsewhere: "If you previously held a license in Alaska, not including an emergency courtesy license, courtesy license or military temporary license, DO NOT complete this application." — with a reinstatement form and two citations, "AS 08.68.251 and 12 AAC 44.317, Lapsed License". Registered Nurse License by Endorsement Application Instructions (08-4016).

A warning about the document itself. Rare in this collection, and worth quoting in full: "If you received this application other than directly from the division or its official website, the application may be outdated or not an official version." The board is telling applicants that copies circulating elsewhere — through employers, recruiters, or license-service businesses — may not be the current form. Registered Nurse License by Endorsement Application Instructions (08-4016).

What the existing license must be. Stated as a condition and then sharpened: "You must hold a current license in another state to be eligible for a nursing license by endorsement in Alaska. This license must be current at the time the board issues the permanent license. An inactive status is not a current license." Two separate moments are covered — eligibility at application, and currency at issue — so a license that lapses while the application is pending is a problem the board has anticipated in writing. Registered Nurse License by Endorsement Application Instructions (08-4016).

A practice-hours test, with alternatives. The board asks for "at least 320 hours of employment in a nursing capacity within the five years before the date the application is received by the board." on its own form, and offers two ways out: "If you cannot document 320 hours of employment in the past five years, you must satisfy the continuing competency requirements of the board or complete a board approved refresher course." Registered Nurse License by Endorsement Application Instructions (08-4016).

Canadian applicants, graded by examination and year. One of the most specific provisions in this collection: "Canadian nurses who passed the CNATS exam before August 1980, with a score of at least 350 on each of the five parts of the examination, or after July 1980 but before July 1992, with ascore of 400 may apply for a License by Endorsement." — the missing space is the document's — and those outside those windows are redirected: "Applicants who took the CNATS after June 1992, must apply to take the NCLEX examination." Registered Nurse License by Endorsement Application Instructions (08-4016).

Nurses educated outside the United States. Where the programme was "NOT taught in English", the board accepts one of three proofs, including "An official International Commission on Healthcare Professions (ICHP) certificate" and a credentials evaluation from the named body. Registered Nurse License by Endorsement Application Instructions (08-4016).

A criminal record does not decide the application. "A "yes" response in the application does not mean your application will be denied." Registered Nurse License by Endorsement Application Instructions (08-4016).

The published process

Practice while the application is pending. Alaska states the rule in capitals at the head of its instructions: "YOU MUST HOLD A TEMPORARY PERMIT OR PERMANENT LICENSE TO PRACTICE NURSING IN ALASKA." The permit that satisfies it is generous by this collection's standards and is described precisely. It requires only part of the application: "A temporary permit may be issued once items #1 - #4 are received and processed (this includes review of professional fitness questions). Items #5 and #6 are not required for a temporary permit." — meaning the employment verification and the English-proficiency evidence can follow later. Its life is stated on the form the applicant signs: six months, non-renewable, and expressly not a shortcut — the sentence ends "renewable, and does not expedite the review process." and begins on the line above, hyphenated across the break, which is why it is given here in two pieces rather than one. It costs nothing further: "No additional fees are required for temporary permits." And it is an election rather than a grant: the form asks the applicant to "Select ONE (1) of the following:" between "I want to be issued a temporary permit if I become eligible for one." and "I do NOT want to be issued a temporary permit if I become eligible for one. I only want to be issued a permanent license." The board also places the burden of watching the clock on the applicant, in a sentence the PDF's text layer runs together: it says the permit holder is responsible for knowing its expiration date and for completing the paperwork for the permanent license. Registered Nurse License by Endorsement Application Instructions (08-4016).

Verification of the existing license, from two points in a career. The board wants verification from "1)thestateorCanadianprovincewhereyou received initiallicensureand2)fromastate or Canadian province where you hold a current license." — the run-together words are an artefact of this PDF's text layer rather than the board's typing — sent directly or through the national system. Canadian provinces are treated on the same footing as states throughout. Registered Nurse License by Endorsement Application Instructions (08-4016).

Fingerprints and the background check. Physical cards to a specific standard: "Submit one original 8" x 8" fingerprint card (FD-258). The card must be printed in black/pale blue ink, on cardstock and include the FBI privacy statement on the back." The board forwards it rather than the applicant doing so, and cites its authority — "AS 12.62.400 and 28 CFR 50.12(b)". It then does something few boards do: it lists in advance the reasons a card is rejected — "Incorrect type of card", "Incomplete or incorrect personal information or signatures", "Improperly rolled prints" — and warns that "a new card and fee may be required". It also tells applicants how to contest what comes back, naming both the federal and state routes and a deadline: "Challenges may be given no later than 30 days after you have been notified by DPS of an adverse report." Registered Nurse License by Endorsement Application Instructions (08-4016).

The three rows above answer the questions an experienced adviser raises first, from the board's own published documents, or record that a question is not answered in them.

Fees, as stated in the sources

All quoted; none totaled by this page — Alaska totals its own, which is unusual here and worth saying, because the figure below is the board's arithmetic rather than this project's.

The registered-nurse endorsement application. "Nonrefundable Application Fee: $200.00", "License Fee: $100.00", "Fingerprint Processing Fee: $ 75.00", and the board's own line, "Total Fees Due: $375.00". Payment is "made payable to "State of Alaska."" Registered Nurse License by Endorsement Application Instructions (08-4016).

The practical-nurse endorsement application, identical to the pound. The same four lines appear in the practical-nurse document: "Nonrefundable Application Fee: $200.00", "License Fee: $100.00", "Fingerprint Processing Fee: $ 75.00", "Total Fees Due: $375.00". Both levels pay the same, which only about half the jurisdictions in this collection do. Practical Nurse License by Endorsement Application Instructions (08-4014).

Refunds, and the moment they stop. The application fee is nonrefundable by its own name, and the board fixes the cut-off for the rest: "Once a permit or license is issued, you are no longer eligible for a refund." A nurse who accepts a temporary permit and then withdraws has therefore passed that point. Registered Nurse License by Endorsement Application Instructions (08-4016).

The temporary permit, which costs nothing extra. "No additional fees are required for temporary permits." Registered Nurse License by Endorsement Application Instructions (08-4016).

A fee that may recur. Where a fingerprint card is rejected for any of the listed reasons, "a new card and fee may be required". Registered Nurse License by Endorsement Application Instructions (08-4016).

What any of it means for a particular application is for the board to determine.

Timelines, as stated in the sources

All quoted; none calculated.

To a first response, and possibly twice over. "You can expect an update regarding the status of the initial application within 4-6 weeks. If you are then asked to provide additional documentation, it may take an additional 4-6 weeks to review." Stated as an update rather than a decision, and the second window is additional to the first. Applications and Forms.

To an answer on a question. "we will respond to your inquiry within four business days." Applications and Forms.

The permit's six months, non-renewable, and expressly not a shortcut: it "does not expedite the review process." Registered Nurse License by Endorsement Application Instructions (08-4016).

The license term, which does not run from issue. "Licenses are issued for a two-year period and expire on November 30 of even-numbered years, regardless of the date of issuance, except licenses issued within 90 days of the expiration date which are issued to the next biennial expiration date." Renewal notice comes "at least 60 days before license expiration", and not receiving one changes nothing: "Failure to receive a renewal notice does not relieve a licensee from the responsibility of renewing a license on time." Registered Nurse License by Endorsement Application Instructions (08-4016).

Thirty days to challenge an adverse background report, as quoted in section 02.

Five years, the window on the 320 employment hours, as quoted in section 01.

Processing, which the board declines to promise. "The average processing time varies by program." with a caution about order and about arriving in person: "Applications are reviewed in order of receipt in our office, and walk-in customers should not expect immediate review." Registered Nurse License by Endorsement Application Instructions (08-4016).

What any of it means for a particular application is for the board to determine.

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Change log

Aug 30, 2026 · Page created. Three first-party captures. Two are mechanical; the third was read through a session browser and supplied, which the packet header records. Findings: (1) a transport split worth inheriting — this host answers automated callers with a DataDome challenge, refusing bare curl, curl with a pinned browser string, and curl-cffi impersonating four different browsers, but the division's PDFs under /web/Portals/5/pub/ are not behind that challenge and fetch cleanly, so the substantive documents were reachable mechanically the whole time and only the wrapper pages were not; a fetcher that tested the page path alone would have deferred this jurisdiction unnecessarily; (2) the temporary permit is the most generous in this collection — six months, no additional fee, issued on four of six required items so that employment verification and English-proficiency evidence can follow, and elected by the applicant on the form rather than granted at discretion — though the board is careful to say it "does not expedite the review process"; (3) the licensing requirement is stated in capitals ahead of everything else, which no other board here does; (4) the existing license must be current both at application and at the moment the permanent license issues, so a lapse mid-application is anticipated in writing; (5) fees are itemised and totalled by the board itself at $375.00, and are identical for the registered and practical nurse; (6) the board warns that a copy of its application obtained anywhere but from the division may be outdated or unofficial — a caution aimed squarely at the third-party license-service market, and one this project reads as a board defending its own authoritative text; (7) the board publishes in advance the three reasons a fingerprint card is rejected and the deadline for challenging an adverse report, which most boards leave to correspondence; (8) Canadian applicants are graded by which examination they sat and in which years, with specific scores; (9) an extraction hazard recorded in the recipe — this PDF's text layer loses many inter-word spaces, producing runs like "Thefollowingmustbereceivedbythedivision", so several otherwise quotable sentences cannot be quoted and are described instead; (10) compact status is not stated in any captured source, and the board's own compact page was not captured on this pass, so it is recorded as uncaptured rather than as absent — the distinction matters, and the page is listed as capture pending. Automated or AI-assisted decision-making: none located; the terms artificial intelligence, automated decision, and algorithm return nothing across the three captured sources, at that narrow scope. Capture pending: the compact page, the statute and regulation booklet, the Verification of Employment form, and the division's fingerprint information sheet. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter, reviewed Aug 30, 2026. Corrections on the record in this log: hello@fieldassembly.net.