Opinions re CA application delay?

[Vanilla562]

I understand that everyone's experiences with the BRN is different & nobody will be able to give me the exact answer I am looking for but I would like some opinions :)

I live in Cali & have 2 misdemeanors on my record. They are both ~10 years old & are for driving without a license & driving with a suspended license. After that whole ordeal, I did my community service & paid all the fines & eventually got my license back - all in a matter of a couple of months.

I sent my app to the BRN with court documents & a letter stating what had happened, etc.

Do you think this is something that can delay the application process for a long time & even worse, prevent me from getting my RN license I already have a job lined up & plan to take the NCLEX in a month or so. I'm just praying my stupid decisions from 10 years ago won't interfere with my future - I'm terrified!!

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

Anytime application for licnesure includes possitive criminal background history will delay NCLEX application to test and licnese application review. With the state employee cuts, Ca BON is backlogged with such requests so delay 2-4 months may ensue from reports of our members.

[trugemlpn]

:down::down: CA :mad::mad:

I sent an endorsement app to the CA BON in Oct 2009 and still have not been licensed almost a year later with full and total disclosure and all documentation requested has been sent in to them! I am a working nurse in WA state no dings what so ever! I moved to CA in Aug to take care of elderly grandmother. She was placed in a LTC and I decided to go to work there since I'd signed a lease. I hadn't lived there in over 20 years and the misdemeanor was older than that of loud and disruptive music and vandalism at age 18y/o I am nearly 40 now. The police department would not respond with a "certified copy" of a letter stating they no longer had the report in their records. I however had traveled two hours away to get it for them and what I got was not certified and funds were running low I had been reduced, literally, (savings depleted) to food stamps and hand outs from the state. I didn't have gas for my Denali etc... And when I finally got some an analyst on the phone they told me they would then request this from the agency and they did and the same thing the agency I assume never replied or gave them what they requested. and here I stand never having been licensed in that state I have since moved and was contacted by the BON where one of the lead analysts advising me that the app was still open and did I want to close it after my complaint he found out I was not there any longer. Not I am sorry or lady jump off a bridge or any thing just the business at hand... I WONT BE BACK!

unlike the governor is so famous for saying.