New Mexico

The pathways, as the board describes them

Endorsement, in three steps. The board opens by ruling out a confusion — "Do not use this application to register for the NCLEX." — then defines the act, then states the steps: submit the application and fee through the portal, provide "Verification of Licensure from state where applicant was licensed by exam or NURSYS.", and "Register and complete criminal background check through Idemia/IdentoGo". The board warns twice on the same page that a wrong turn is not refunded: "All applications fees are non-refundable." and "NM BON only accepts on-line applications. Applications submitted in error OR not approved for eligibility are non-refundable." Registered Nurse & Licensed Practical Nurse.

A case the board addresses that most do not. For an applicant without a social security number, the verification requirement doubles: "Applicants with no social security number , who took the NCLEX will need to submit two license verifications 1) one from the state where they passed the NCLEX and 2) one from the state that accepted their NCLEX score for initial licensure." The spacing before the comma is the board's. Registered Nurse & Licensed Practical Nurse.

Multistate status, as a request rather than an application. The board describes it as a message rather than a form: a single-state licensee resident in New Mexico logs into the portal and submits "a message through the message center requesting the multi-state status", uploading a New Mexico driving license and social security card and completing fingerprints. Nothing in the captured sources describes how a nurse arriving from another state obtains multistate status on the endorsement application itself. Frequently Asked Questions.

The Graduate Nurse Permit, which is not this route. The board publishes a permit for new graduates with a condition on who may ask for it: "Graduate Nurse Permit (GNP) requests must be received from the employer, through the NM Board of Nursing (NM BON) website, within twelve (12) weeks of graduation." That instrument belongs to the examination route, not to endorsement. Registered Nurse & Licensed Practical Nurse.

The published process

Practice while the application is pending. New Mexico prices a temporary license on its fee schedule — "Temporary license (LPN/RN) $60" and a separate line for advanced practice — and gives it a duration in a frequently-asked question and nowhere else: asked "How long is a Temp License good for?" the board answers "6 months from the date of the application was submitted." Note where the clock starts: at submission of the application, not at issue of the permit, so any time the board takes to review is time already spent. What the captured sources do not state is who may have one, on what conditions, or how it is requested: the endorsement route's three steps do not mention it, and no page in the captured set describes an application for it. The price and the period are published; the eligibility is not. The absence is recorded, not filled. Fees; Frequently Asked Questions; Registered Nurse & Licensed Practical Nurse.

Verification of the existing license. The board asks for the license from the state of examination rather than the current one, and names the national system as an alternative rather than a requirement: "Verification of Licensure from state where applicant was licensed by exam or NURSYS." For applicants without a social security number the requirement is two verifications, as quoted in section 01. On transcripts, which the endorsement route does not require but the examination route does, the board publishes an electronic channel: "We accept electronic transcripts at licensing@bon.nm.gov". Registered Nurse & Licensed Practical Nurse.

Fingerprints and the background check. The board names its vendor and publishes two windows that a relocating nurse can easily fall between. "Register and complete criminal background check through Idemia/IdentoGo" then "Initial fingerprints are retrievable for 30 days so print a receipt after submission of your application." and "Accepted fingerprints are good for the duration of your active initial application (1 year)." The first window governs the receipt, the second the prints themselves; the board states both on the endorsement route and states the same pair on the examination route in slightly different words — "Initial fingerprints are retrievable for 30 days so please print after submission of your application." Both wordings are reproduced. Registered Nurse & Licensed Practical Nurse; Fingerprinting/Idemia.

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.

The schedule's own frame. "Payment of fees will be accepted in the form specified by the board. The initial application fee will be for a period of one year, plus the months to the applicant's birth month. Fees may be collected in whole or prorated to commensurate with the length of the renewal period. Fees are not refundable." Fees.

Initial licensure by examination or endorsement, which the board prices as one line rather than two: "Licensed practical nurse (LPN) $150", "Registered nurse (RN) $150", "Advanced practice (CNP/CNS/CRNA) $100". The schedule lays these out in columns; the gaps between label and figure are runs of spaces on the page and arrive here as single spaces. Fees.

The temporary license. "Temporary license (LPN/RN) $60" and "Temporary license (CNP/CNS/CRNA) $60". Fees.

Renewal and lapse. "Licensed practical nurse (LPN) $110" and "Registered nurse (RN) $110" for renewal; and for "Inactive license renewal (late renewal, lapsed status, reactivation, reinstatement after board action) includes renewal fee:" the same two levels at "$200". Fees.

Other stated amounts. "Re-exam (LPN/RN) $60" and "License verification $30". Fees.

A category priced at nothing, on the certification schedule the board publishes on the same page: "Initial certificate military personnel, spouse, dependent, or veteran $0" and "First renewal of certificate military personnel, spouse, dependent, or veteran $0". Whether anything comparable applies to nursing licensure is not stated in the captured sources. Fees.

What the board states about getting any of it back. "No, the NMBON does not issue refunds." Frequently Asked Questions.

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. "6 months from the date of the application was submitted." — the clock runs from submission, not from issue. Frequently Asked Questions.

How long an endorsement application stays alive. "Endorsement Applications will be valid for 1 year." Registered Nurse & Licensed Practical Nurse.

The license's own first term, which is not two years. "All licenses by exam and endorsement will be active for one year, plus the months to the applicant's birth month and thereafter will be for the full 2 years." Registered Nurse & Licensed Practical Nurse.

The two fingerprint windows. "Initial fingerprints are retrievable for 30 days" and "Accepted fingerprints are good for the duration of your active initial application (1 year)." Registered Nurse & Licensed Practical Nurse.

Renewal reminders. "The renewal link will be activated in your NM BON portal 60 days prior to expiration. Renewal reminders are sent to the email we have on file 60 days and 30 days prior to your license expiration." Registered Nurse & Licensed Practical Nurse.

Processing. No period for reviewing an endorsement application appears in any captured source. The board publishes a clock for one adjacent act only: inactivation requests "are typically processed within 5 business days." Frequently Asked Questions.

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. Six first-party captures taken mechanically through this jurisdiction's capture recipe; every source is served by curl with a pinned browser string, and the route page's accordion sections arrive in the response. Findings: (1) the board publishes no statement of compact membership in its own words anywhere in the captured sources — its only compact reference is a footer link to the commission's site, which is a link and not a statement — while separately publishing a procedure for obtaining multistate privileges that presupposes participation; the docket row records that shape rather than importing the commission's roster; (2) the temporary license is published at two removes from the route that would use it: priced on the fee schedule at sixty dollars, given a duration only in a frequently-asked question, and mentioned nowhere in the endorsement steps, so its price and period are published and its eligibility is not; (3) that duration runs from submission of the application rather than from issue of the permit, which means review time is time already spent; (4) verification is required from the state where the applicant was licensed by examination rather than the current state, with the national system named as an alternative rather than a requirement; (5) an applicant without a social security number must supply two verifications rather than one, a case few boards in this collection address at all; (6) two fingerprint windows are published and they govern different things — thirty days to retrieve the receipt, one year for the prints themselves — and the same pair is stated in different words on two routes of the same page, with both wordings reproduced; (7) the first license term is not the full renewal period but one year plus the months to the applicant's birth month, which the board states on both the endorsement and examination routes; (8) the board directs applicants away from its published telephone number to a portal message centre, and publishes purpose-specific mailboxes rather than one general address; (9) no processing period for an endorsement application appears anywhere, though the board publishes a five-business-day clock for inactivation requests; (10) two capture facts worth inheriting — the frequently-asked-questions page prints its whole question list as a table of contents before the answers, so every question string appears twice and a search that stops at the first hit lands in the index; and the board's street address and hours exist only in the site-wide footer, captured under a second scope of the same document. The first attempt at that footer scope matched nothing and capture.py raised rather than writing an empty source, which is the scope tripwire working as intended. 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 application inside the Nurse Portal, any board statement of compact membership, and the Nursing Practice Act and board rules. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter, reviewed Aug 30, 2026. Corrections on the record in this log: hello@fieldassembly.net.