North Dakota

The pathways, as the board describes them

A qualification list that opens with an identity document. "To qualify for license by endorsement, you must meet all of the requirements below:" and the first is one most boards in this collection never mention: "Possess a U.S. Social Security Number:" with the board distinguishing it from two documents an internationally trained or Canadian-licensed nurse may hold instead — "This is not the same as an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) or a Canadian Social Insurance Number (SIN)." — and attributing the rule to statute: "North Dakota Law (NDCC 43-50-02) requires a U.S. social security number to issue any permit or license." Endorsement – US Educated.

What the license history must look like. Two conditions, one about the first license and one about a current one: "Been issued a license issued by another U.S. state after passing the NCLEX." — the doubled verb is the board's — and "Hold an active license with another U.S. state for the level of licensure sought." The board then notes these may be satisfied by a single license: "This can be your initial exam license as noted in requirement three above if it is still active." Endorsement – US Educated.

The practice requirement, with three ways to meet it. "Worked 400 hours of licensed nursing practice in the last four (4) years for the level of license sought", or completion of the nursing programme "in the past four (4) years as verified by your official transcript,", or "Completed a board-approved refresher course within the past four (4) years." The hours are attested rather than evidenced up front: "Check the box in the application that you have four hundred (400) hours of nursing practice within the past four (4) years (subject to audit)." Practice outside the United States is treated differently — it requires "a Verification of Employment (link to form)" completed by the employer and sent directly to the board. Endorsement – US Educated.

Where the applicant must live, given as four cases. The board lists residence in North Dakota; residence in "a state that is not a member of the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC),"; residence in a compact state where the nurse is "ineligible for a multistate license in that state due to disciplinary action or criminal history,"; and residence in a compact state while "moving to North Dakota in the near future to become a resident of North Dakota". The third case is unusual in this collection for naming the reasons for ineligibility rather than leaving them abstract. The fourth is a prospective test with no stated period, unlike the sixty-day windows other boards publish. A typographical note: the third item begins "e a resident of a state that is a resident of the NLC" in the board's own text, missing its first letter and repeating resident where it appears to mean member. Endorsement – US Educated.

A single-state outcome, stated as a consequence of where a nurse lives. "Nurses living in a non-NLC state are only eligible for single-state licensure for practice in North Dakota only." Endorsement – US Educated.

Nurses educated outside the United States are routed to a separate page, and one further requirement is stated on the main one: "Internationally educated nurses whose education was not completed in English with English textbooks, are also required to complete and pass a Board accepted English Language Proficiency exam and have the results of that exam sent to the North Dakota Board of Nursing." Endorsement – US Educated.

The published process

Practice while the application is pending. North Dakota's temporary permit is granted rather than requested, and the board says so twice. "Upon receipt and processing of your endorsement application, official transcript, and license verification of both your initial exam license and an active license, your application will be reviewed for issuance of a 90-day nonrenewable temporary permit. There is no additional fee, application, or request required to receive a temporary permit, all applications are issued one when eligible after review." Its purpose is stated exactly: it "is issued to allow practice while your CHRC is being processed", and the board confirms the background check is not a precondition for it — "Your CHRC is required to be completed for issuance of your license, but not required for you to receive a temporary permit." Its limits are equally explicit: "All temporary permits are issued as single-state and good for only practice in North Dakota and cannot be used as verification for applying for licensure in other states." It does not extend — "Extensions will not be granted." — and it is not available twice to an applicant who let a previous one lapse unfinished: "A temporary permit may not be issued if you have previously received a temporary permit for an application that you did not complete the requirements to receive full licensure/registry for". Endorsement – US Educated.

Verification of the existing license, which North Dakota wants twice. "Send verification of license for both your initial license by exam as well as an active license." with one channel only — "All verifications must be sent through Nursys: www.nursys.com" — and a rule for when the two collapse into one: "If your initial license by exam is still active, that license verification will satisfy both requirements. If your initial license by exam is expired, you must have another active license verified." The transcript has its own strictness: "Copies sent from the applicant, unofficial copies, faxed copies, and emailed copies will not be accepted." Endorsement – US Educated.

Fingerprints and the background check. The board runs it with a state agency and names it: the CHRC is "the official name for the background record that the ND BON conducts with the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) for all initial license applications or reactivation applications as required by law and rule." It is submitted as a physical packet — "CHRC form – completed and signed,", "Fingerprint cards, and", "Payment made to the ND Attorney General." — and nothing done elsewhere will substitute: "The ND BON cannot accept any background check results from any other state agencies, schools, or places of employment." The board forwards it on the applicant's behalf: "NDBON will submit the completed form, fee, and fingerprint cards to Bureau of Criminal Investigations (BCI)." Endorsement – US Educated; Criminal History Record Check (CHRC).

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 license application fee does not appear. This is the notable absence on this jurisdiction. The board's pages refer to the fee repeatedly and treat it as a known quantity — an applicant receives a license "as part of the application fee", a temporary permit issues once the board has "the application, fee, and either an official transcript from your school of nursing or Verification of licensure", and the background-check payment is "a separate, mandatory fee for the Bureau of Criminal Investigation and not included/part of your original application fee" — but no amount for it is stated anywhere across the eight captured sources. A reader is left knowing a fee exists, that it is distinct from the background-check payment, and not what it is. Whether it is published inside the Nurse Portal, which requires an account, was not established. Endorsement FAQs; Criminal History Record Check FAQs.

The background check, which is paid to a different agency. "Money Order, Cashier Check, or personal check for $40.00, with a current date, and must be made payable to ND Attorney General (Please do not send cash as your payment – cash is not accepted)". Criminal History Record Check (CHRC).

Fingerprinting, which the board declines to price. "Fee for fingerprinting will vary depending upon agency charges" and the responsibility is placed on the applicant: "The individual applicant for licensure or registration is responsible for all costs associated with CHRC." Criminal History Record Check (CHRC); Criminal History Record Check FAQs.

The temporary permit and the multistate license, both free. "There is no additional fee, application, or request required to receive a temporary permit"; the compact license issues "automatically without additional fee, application, or request". Endorsement – US Educated.

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 full licensure, stated twice at slightly different lengths. On the endorsement page: "Please allow 5-10 business days for processing of all items." In the FAQ: "allow a least seven (7) to 10 business days for full licensure." — the dropped word is the board's. Endorsement – US Educated; Endorsement FAQs.

To a temporary permit. "a temporary permit is typically issued within three to five working days, however this can vary depending on the applicant." Endorsement FAQs.

The background check's own clock, which runs longer than the license review. "The CHRC process takes 10-14 business days to complete before the Board recieves a CHRC report." — the misspelling is the board's — which is why the permit exists. Endorsement FAQs.

The permit's ninety days, non-renewable, as quoted in section 02, and confirmed in the FAQ: "Temporary permits are issued for 90 days." The board answers the question directly: "The board may grant a 90-day non-renewable temporary permit to an applicant for initial licensure by endorsement who has applied for a CHRC provided the applicant has met all other requirements for the temporary permit." Endorsement FAQs.

When the first license expires, which is not a processing time: "All initial endorsement licenses are issued with an expiration date of 12/31 the following year." Endorsement – US Educated.

Four years, the window on the practice requirement, as quoted in section 01.

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. Eight first-party captures taken mechanically through this jurisdiction's capture recipe. This board's robots.txt asks automated callers for thirty seconds between requests — the longest such figure in the collection — so every source on the recipe carries a thirty-second delay and a full capture waits three and a half minutes between first and last fetch. Findings: (1) the temporary permit is issued without being asked for, with no separate application and no separate fee, on review once the application, transcript and two verifications are in, and its stated purpose is to cover the background check — the most automatic interim authority in this collection; (2) it is single-state, ninety days, non-renewable, cannot be used as verification elsewhere, and is withheld from an applicant who previously held one and never completed that application; (3) no license application fee appears anywhere in the captured sources, although the board's own pages refer to it three times as a known quantity, so a reader learns that a fee exists and is distinct from the $40 background-check payment without learning what it is; (4) a United States Social Security number is a stated qualification, attributed to NDCC 43-50-02, with the board expressly distinguishing it from an ITIN and from a Canadian Social Insurance Number — a requirement most boards in this collection never mention and one that bears directly on internationally trained applicants; (5) verification is required from two licenses, the original examination license and a current active one, collapsing to one where the original is still active; (6) the residence list names disciplinary action or criminal history as the reason a nurse might be ineligible for a multistate license at home, which other boards leave abstract; (7) the board's own text carries three transcription errors worth preserving rather than silently correcting — a residence bullet beginning "e a resident of a state that is a resident of the NLC", the address rendered "919 S 7th Street Suire 504", and "the Board recieves a CHRC report" — and the postal address appears in three different forms across the captured pages; (8) processing is stated twice at different lengths, five to ten business days on the endorsement page and seven to ten in the FAQ. Automated or AI-assisted decision-making: none located; the terms artificial intelligence, automated decision, and algorithm return nothing across the eight captured sources, and that scope is recorded in `research/ai-disclosure.jsonl`. Capture pending: the application inside the Nurse Portal, the license application fee wherever it is published, the CHRC form, and the statute behind the Social Security number requirement. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter, reviewed Aug 30, 2026. Corrections on the record in this log: hello@fieldassembly.net.