Timeline for endorsing RN license to CA

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I am interested to hear anyones experience in endorsing their license into CA. I used the online endorsement as well as the livescan fingerprinting. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

Specializes in NICU (RNC-NIC) & Informatics (RN-BC).
Finally had my license post. To everyone, follow up with complaints to the BoN, it really makes a difference.

After submitting my application in March and having to do a name search my license finally posted today

Congratulations! Hopefully my name search will be done soon. :|

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anyone know how long the ink fingerprint takes once they send it to the justice department?

I sent my fingerprints in early June and the BON just sent out my card to the Justice department on September 2, I will be going to Cali next week so should I do the live scan to speed the process?

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Renzlao

Did you call BRN? Any update?

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Here is my latest update. I am SO MAD right now.

I called the admin building number this morning (the number I posted earlier in the thread). I had called this number last week and the lady wouldn't help me at all, said I had to call the call center number, but I figured I would try it again before I gave it up as a lost cause since the call center clearly isn't getting me anywhere. So I called, and the lady did warn me that they aren't supposed to help us when they call (FYI for future callers) but I was super polite and nice and she agreed to help a little. She looked my stuff up and lo and behold, my fingerprints STILL weren't back. There was no note, there wasn't anything saying they had been rejected, they just... weren't there. She said that seemed fishy to her so she promised she would look into it and call me back. She also told me each and every transcript they have recieved... turns out they are missing one. Good to know, wonder how long THAT information has been just sitting there. She said the board sent me a letter last week about the "oral communication" class that everyone has a problem with... well, A) I haven't gotten that letter and B) if they had my last transcript that they're missing, I'm pretty sure there's a class on there that would have satisfied it SO. She said there's nothing to do except have them send the transcript again. All this, and we hang up, and she promises to call me back when she has found out information about my fingerprints.

Much to my surprise, she DOES call me back about two hours later. My fingerprints have cleared, great! Apparently, the problem was that my last name has a hyphen in it and wasn't transmitting properly... and the past three times I have called to check this, no one has bothered to look this information up or even try to help. This could have been cleared up SO MUCH SOONER.

But I digress. Fingerprints are cleared... check. Still waiting on one transcript. Check. But I can get my temporary license now, right? WRONG. She tells me she can't see where I have paid for my temporary license. What? I sent a money order for them in the same envelope as my 2x2 picture and fingerprint hard card, along with a note explaining what the money order was for (there wasn't an option to pay for it online when I paid for everything else, so I HAD to do it this way, and had actually called the call center previously to verify that this is what I should do.) So now I'm PISSED. This whole time I've been thinking "at least I will probably get my temporary license soon" and now they're saying they don't even have that. And I paid for it- so where the hell did my $50 go?! She said she would check with the cashier's office but didn't promise to call back or anything, so here I am once again in limbo, waiting.

I am going to file a complaint RIGHT NOW. So unbelievably frustrated.

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Renzlao

Did you call BRN? Any update?

not yet. I could not get through the number.

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I'm so sorry RookieRoo. I hope they can give you your temp soon. Knowing what's going on with your application I am not really hopeful with mine either. Like yours, my view status disappeared. I've been trying to contact the board with no success. I'm just gonna turn this over to the gods lol and keep myself busy.

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Renzlao

Did you call BRN? Any update?

So I managed to speak with someone and forwarded me to my license specialist where I left a message. The lady said that I should have applied for license by examination instead of endorsement. I am like ?!?!? I already have a WA state license and my original state is CNMI. I give up lol Time to move on. California is a great state, but if I can't practice there, there are 49 other states lol. I wish everyone all the best!

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So I managed to speak with someone and forwarded me to my license specialist where I left a message. The lady said that I should have applied for license by examination instead of endorsement. I am like ?!?!? I already have a WA state license and my original state is CNMI. I give up lol Time to move on. California is a great state, but if I can't practice there, there are 49 other states lol. I wish everyone all the best!

So, you havent spoke with your analyst? Why not wait for you analyst to response your message. Maybe the lady you spoke didnt know what shes saying. Lol.

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my view application status which is pending and open disappeared this morning and no license available. does it mean they are processing my application?

Hi, were you able to endorse your license in California?

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spoke with everyone and their mom today at the board. I don't even want to look at my phone to see how many times, how many minutes I called and was on hold. I got bounced around from cashiering... to licensing... back to cashiering. I found out that they DO have my money for my temporary license but now they are saying that they don't have the application for one- what?! It's a freakin box that gets checked, right? Yes, verified the licensing specialist. And that's all I have to do right? Check the box, send the money, good to go? Licensing specialist says yes. THEN WHY DON'T I HAVE MY TEMPORARY LICENSE?! Licensing guy blames cashiering... cashiering blames licensure guy. Somewhere along the lines I got the number for the licensing supervisor whose voicemail states, in no uncertain terms, not to call any more frequently than every 5 business days. Cool, left a message, doubt that will fix anything.

So disheartened.

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Specializes in Critical care.

I'm thinking of driving up to the board this weekend and getting there first thing Monday morning... I just don't know if it would do any good at this point or not.

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Specializes in NICU (RNC-NIC) & Informatics (RN-BC).

My license FINALLY came through! Contact your Congressman if you're having issues! A name search did not have to be done for me.

8/29: Called the board and they told me my second set of fingerprints had been rejected (I sent THREE cards the second time) and a name search would have to be done.

9/8: Called for an update on my name search. BRN said it was started on 9/2, even though I was told it would be started 8/29.

During this week, I got in contact with my Congressman's office to help. I called the man I had been in contact with today and he said that my last set of fingerprints were processed on 9/7. He wasn't sure if they had been accepted or rejected, but his contact at the DOJ was supposed to let him know soon, and he would get back to me on Monday.

I went ahead and looked on the BreEZe site after getting off the phone with him, and my license number was posted! I can finally start working!

(Sorry if none of this makes sense, I'm too excited.)

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