How to know if your license is approved or denied?

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I graduated nursing school in May and took the NCLEX June 21st and received my pass letter a week ago. Does this mean my license is Approved or can it be denied? I looked online for Illinois nursing website and it all says pending but under verify fees and FBI check it says rejected/ fail? What does that mean? Would I have received something in the mail stating I was denied my license or is it an error? When would you know if you were denied your license?

Specializes in med surg.

IS it possible your check bounced or do you have a criminal record. Sounds like it's one of those two things.

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I actually called the BON and they told me it's going to say rejected/failed for a few weeks because they are processing my check and still doing the background check.

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I actually called the BON and they told me it's going to say rejected/failed for a few weeks because they are processing my check and still doing the background check.

Well, you know what to do first next time.

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I'm so glad I found this post! My status on idfpr says the same thing. Has your status updated yet?

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My status has not changed yet I called and they said it can take up to 3 weeks before it changes. Mine is still processing and they said they are behind.

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Try this Nursys®

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Same thing happened to me. I talked to several of my classmates that all were on the registry within 48 hours of taking the NCLEX, even the ones that took it the same day that I did. I turned my background check in 8 weeks ago. They told me they were behind processing mine or something got mixed up with my LPN background, something strange and I just got on there a couple days ago. Hopefully you will soon too!!

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How long did it take it to get it straighten out. I'm currently going through the same thing

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I believe it was 3-4 weeks, I remember getting my license about a month after the rest of my class due to this.

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I actually found the issue with mine was my fingerprints were never sent to the state police from the fingerprinting agency. I still don't know how I was able to test. I hope this doesn't push me back too much.

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Ugh, thats so annoying when something out of your control happens and someone drop the ball like that.

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So what's the update OP?

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