Endorsing license to California

suzanne4, RN · Sep 18, 2008

CA is going to require that your school send your transcripts to them before they will issue a permanent license to you. If the state where you are licensed is part of Nursys then they can use that and you do not need to send the packet to VT as well.

They will only issue a temporary license until they have received the transcripts.

barrjan · Sep 19, 2008

Thanks for your quick response. I have already contacted the school for the transcripts, and have sent them the packet. They messed up the last time with Vermont, instead of giving hours of practice/theory they gave weeks. The whole process took nearly a year! my school kept on insisting that they sent them, a nightmare going back and forth. A letter to the head of the dept ended up sorting that out. So i called them to make sure that they do it right this time. Did livescan finger prints this afternoon $71 , my dh needed smelling salts. I'm expecting having to wait 4-6wks, i'm sure that i read on here that it can take 6 months for a permanent license. So it's a good idea to pay for the permanent and temp license?

suzanne4, RN · Sep 19, 2008

If you are in CA, you can actually take a drive up to Sacramento and get issued the temporary license that same day if you need it any earlier.

Depends on when you are planning to begin to work as determining if you need the temporary license or not.

Best of luck to you.