New Hampshire

The pathways, as the board describes them

A caution before the route: the office's reciprocity statement is not current. The page a nurse reaches by following the word reciprocity describes a change that has not been news for three years, in the future tense throughout. It records that "on June 28, 2023, Governor Christopher T. Sununu signed House Bill 594." and quotes the statute: under it the Office "shall issue licenses to professionals who present evidence of an active license in good standing from another jurisdiction . . . provided that the jurisdiction's licensing requirements are substantially similar to New Hampshire's license requirements." It then states what such applicants would no longer need — transcripts, examination results, evidence of experience, letters of reference "and other documentation typically required to obtain a license." But it goes on: "HB 594 goes into effect on August 27, 2023.", "The Office intends to file interim rules shortly after the bill becomes effective.", "The Office expects finalizing interim rules by the end of calendar year, 2023." and "Current reciprocity requirements and processes will remain in effect until August 27, 2023." Whether those rules were made, and what they now say, is not stated anywhere in the captured sources. This is quoted as a dated statement from 2023, not as a description of the route today. Reciprocity Licensing.

What the application pages actually list. For registered nurses the office publishes initial-license checklists by route: "Checklist for RN License by Comparable Education", "Checklist for RN License by Examination", "Checklist for RN License by Endorsement (Reciprocity)", "RN Endorsement Verification (Reciprocity)" and "Checklist for RN License by Endorsement for Foreign Educated Nurses". The practical-nurse page publishes the same set at that level. The checklists themselves are separate documents and are capture-pending; what the captured sources establish is the shape of the route set, not its contents. Applications for RN; Applications for LPN.

One route the board rules out. "There is no reciprocity for the APRN license. You will need to submit an initial application and all required documentation for this license type". FAQs for Nursing Professions.

How applications are filed. "Initial applications are done" "online" through the office's portal. Two things are not: the temporary license, and reinstatement — "Reinstatements cannot be completed online at this time". Applications for RN; FAQs for Nursing Professions.

The published process

Practice while the application is pending. New Hampshire prices two temporary licenses on its fee schedule — "Temporary Registered Nurse" and "Temporary Licensed Practical Nurse", each with an "Application Fee" of "$20.00" — but the only description of a temporary license in the captured sources attaches it to examination, not to endorsement. Asked "How do I apply for a temporary license to take my NCLEX?" the board answers: "For RN or LPN, complete the application and provide payment. You can only receive this temporary license once. Temporary Application is a paper application and submitted in mail or in person at our office." The application pages name the same instrument as the "RN-LPN Temporary by Exam Application". Nothing in the captured sources offers a temporary license to a nurse arriving with a license from another state. What the board does publish for that nurse is the compact answer: holding a multistate license from a party state, "you are NOT required to apply for an RN license." A nurse holding a single-state license elsewhere, or arriving from a non-compact state, is not addressed. The absence is recorded, not filled. Board of Nursing License Fees; FAQs for Nursing Professions; Applications for RN.

Verification of the existing license. The office publishes a document named for the purpose — "RN Endorsement Verification (Reciprocity)", and the equivalent at practical-nurse level — but its contents are not in the captured sources, and no page states how verification must arrive or from which state. The 2023 reciprocity statement quoted in section 01 suggests the documentary burden was meant to fall, but it describes an intention rather than a rule in force. The absence is recorded rather than filled from that statement. Applications for RN; Reciprocity Licensing.

Fingerprints and the background check. The board answers where to go rather than what is required: "Please utilize this resource for instructions on how to complete your CBC for licensure: CBC instructions." with a branch that turns on where the applicant is: "If you are completing your background check in the State of New Hampshire, follow the instructions for option B; if you are completing your background check outside the State of New Hampshire, follow instructions for C." A relocating nurse is on the second branch. The instructions themselves are a separate document and are capture-pending; no fee for the check appears in the captured sources. FAQs for Nursing Professions.

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.

How this schedule is read. The office publishes a separate small table per credential rather than one table across levels, and marks most nursing amounts with a footnote. The footnote reads: it "Denotes inclusion of mandatory Professional Health Program (PHP) fee of $28.00 to be paid at the time of licensing." So the figures below are not the license alone. The board states the composition; this page does not do the subtraction. Board of Nursing License Fees.

Registered nurses. Under "Registered Nurse", the table gives an application fee, a renewal fee and a reinstatement fee at "$116.00" each, all three carrying that footnote. Board of Nursing License Fees.

Licensed practical nurses. The same three lines at the same amount, "$116.00", also footnoted. The two levels are priced identically. Board of Nursing License Fees.

The temporary licenses, which are priced separately and carry no footnote, so no programme fee is folded into them: under "Temporary Registered Nurse" and under "Temporary Licensed Practical Nurse", an "Application Fee" of "$20.00" in each case. Board of Nursing License Fees.

Other credentials on the same schedule. "Licensed Nursing Assistant" at "$66.00" across all three lines, footnoted; "Medication Nursing Assistant" at "$11.00", not footnoted; "Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN)" at "$110.00" across all three lines, not footnoted; and "Program Approvals" at "$250.00". Board of Nursing License Fees.

Forms of payment for anything filed on paper. "Personal Check, Money Order or Cashier's Check" Applications for RN.

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.

The temporary license. No duration appears in any captured source. What the board states instead is a limit on repetition: "You can only receive this temporary license once." FAQs for Nursing Professions.

The line between reinstatement and reapplication. One year, and it changes what a nurse files: a license "expired less than 1 year" is reinstated on paper, while one "expired or lapsed for more than 1 year" means reapplying online. Applications for RN.

Dates attached to the 2023 statute. "HB 594 goes into effect on August 27, 2023." and "Current reciprocity requirements and processes will remain in effect until August 27, 2023." Both are quoted as stated in 2023; what governs now is not stated in the captured sources. Reciprocity Licensing.

Office hours, for anything delivered in person. "Hours: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM" Applications for RN.

Processing. No period for reviewing an endorsement application appears in any captured source.

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

Source map

Change log

Aug 30, 2026 · Page created. Six first-party captures taken mechanically through this jurisdiction's capture recipe. Findings: (1) the office's central statement about the reciprocity route is three years stale and reads as current — it describes House Bill 594 entirely in the future tense, says the bill "goes into effect on August 27, 2023", says the office "intends to file interim rules shortly" and "expects finalizing interim rules by the end of calendar year, 2023", and has evidently not been revised since; it is quoted here with its dates and treated as historical, per the charter's rule, and nothing in it is converted into a present-tense account of what the route now requires; (2) the consequence is that the most important thing a relocating nurse needs from this state — what documentation the endorsement route actually demands today — is not stated anywhere in the captured sources, and is recorded as an absence rather than inferred from a 2023 announcement of an intention; (3) the board never states plainly that New Hampshire is a nursing compact member, but publishes the more useful consequence: a nurse holding a multistate license from a party state is not required to apply at all; (4) two temporary licenses are priced on the fee schedule at twenty dollars each, but the only description of a temporary license anywhere attaches it to taking the NCLEX and states it may be had only once, so nothing in these sources offers one to a nurse arriving with an out-of-state license; (5) advanced practice is excluded from reciprocity by the board's own words; (6) registered and practical nurses are priced identically at $116.00, and most nursing amounts carry a footnote disclosing that a mandatory twenty-eight-dollar programme fee is folded in, so the figures are quoted with that footnote rather than alone; (7) the background-check answer branches on whether the applicant is in New Hampshire, which puts a relocating nurse on the second branch, but the instructions themselves are a separate document and capture-pending; (8) one office runs both license levels through the same route set and the same portal, so unlike the split-board states nothing here turns on which license a nurse holds; (9) a transport fact worth inheriting — www.oplc.nh.gov answers plain curl with HTTP 403 whether or not a browser user-agent is sent, and answers curl-cffi normally at the target already pinned in capture.py, so this state needed the curl-cffi transport but not the impersonate override Arkansas needed. Automated or AI-assisted decision-making: none located; the terms artificial intelligence, automated decision, and algorithm return nothing across the six captured sources, and that scope is recorded in `research/ai-disclosure.jsonl`. Capture pending: the endorsement checklists and verification forms at both levels, the background-check instructions, the Declaration of Primary Residency Form, and any current statement of what the reciprocity route requires under the rules made after HB 594. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter, reviewed Aug 30, 2026. Corrections on the record in this log: hello@fieldassembly.net.