Attention Applicants: The Resident Licensing and Resident Licensing Renewal applications are temporarily unavailable. We anticipate that these will be made available again by the close of the business day. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Attention Illinois Applicants: Effective 2:30 p.m. on July 16, 2010, Illinois electronic licensing applications through NIPR (RL, RLR, NRL, NRR) were temporarily suspended to prepare for system conversion. Electronic licensing through NIPR will be made available on Monday, August 2, 2010. Resident producers whose renewals fall between the period of 7/16/10 to 8/2/10 must apply by paper to the Illinois Department of Insurance.

Attention Maryland Residents - When entering license number on NIPR applications, please insert the prefix (alpha characters). Example RPI 9998989 (please include the space).

Effective 8/1/2010 the NJDOBI will no longer print and mail licenses to Insurance Producers and Public Adjusters. Licensees will print their own licenses via SBS CONNECT.

• SBS CONNECT is a service offered by the NAIC. SBS CONNECT allows one free license print and sends an e-mail notification to Insurance Producers and Public Adjusters upon license issuance, renewal, and when various changes are made to an insurance producer license.
• Please wait 24 hours after a transaction is approved by the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance to print the license, as that period of time is required to populate data fields. These transactions include: license issuance; license renewal; changes to lines of authority; address change; name change; expiration date; etc.

Idaho applicants: Please do not attempt to apply for, renew or amend an application for the license classes Independent Adjuster, Resident Public Adjuster or Non-Resident Public Adjuster. At this time, Idaho is no longer offering these classes electronically through NIPR. Please contact the ID DOI for alternative instructions for licensing of these classes. If you do attempt to submit application for any of these three classes through NIPR, you will be lead through the entire application only to receive an error message at the end. We expect these classes to be offered again through NIPR later in the year.

Attn IE8 users: If you encounter issues using our website with Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 8 please try the following steps prior to contacting the Help Desk:

1. Closing all browser and only opening one to www.nipr.com
2. TOOLS: Turn on Compatiblity Viewer
3. TOOLS: Internet Options
4. General tab: Browsing History: Delete Temporary Internet Files and Delete Cookies
5. General tab: Browsing Hisotry: Click on SETTINGS and change to Every Visit to the page
6. Advanced tab: Security settings Turn on by checking: Use SSL 2.0, Use SSL 3.0 and Use TLS 1.0
7. Refresh browser
8. Sign back into the application and make the payment.

The NAIC/NIPR does not endorse or require the use of any specific internet browser. However, the Web sites are tested for reliability and compatibility using Microsoft Internet Explorer (version 6 and 7) and Mozilla Firefox (versions 2.x and 3.x). Using these browsers will ensure that Web site content is delivered as intended.

Most NAIC/NIPR applications perform optimally under Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 and version 7, and under the two most current major versions of Firefox (i.e., 3.x and 2.x).

Alabama license numbers will no longer include the beginning alpha character or any leading zeros. Example: "A012345" will be "12345" or "A001234" will be "1234"

Virginia resident online renewals for Surplus Lines Broker, Consultant, and Viatical Settlement Broker licenses must be completed after April 20, 2010 and prior to July 1, 2010. The normal start date for renewals is April 2, 2010. These three licenses expire on June 30 of each calendar year. All other Virginia licenses are perpetual. The online renewal process will be unavailable after June 30, 2010. Producers that fail to renew by June 30, 2010 must apply for a new license online.

This is an on-line application designed to accelerate the Resident Licensing process. This application is for new licenses and renewing existing licenses.

NC - Individuals, your license number is your National Producer Number (NPN) with no leading zeros. This is how the license numbers display on the National Producer Database (PDB).

Virginia Residents: Effective Friday, December 18, 2009, NIPR is now accepting resident license applications for Virginia.

Attention NH applicants: Effective April 1, 2009, The State of New Hampshire WILL NOT mail a paper license to you. To obtain one free print of your paper license, and to view Continuing Education Transcripts without charge, visit our website, www.nh.gov/insurance, and select ""SBS CONNECT"". You may need to wait 24 hours after receiving this message to print a license.

NC-Attention Business Entities, in order to renew your license through NIPR, you must enter your FEIN as your license number, without a dash.

Electronic Check ACH Setup

• Some banks or companies may require a pre-authorization to use this electronic check service. If you need to set up this service with your financial institution, this NIPR ACH-ID will be required. ACH-ID - 9098504041.
• Use the FAQ section for additional information concerning electronic check processing.

To successfully participate in electronic resident licensing you must:

• Make application to one of the following States: (Resident Licensing States)  
• Make an application for at least ONE (1) Line of Authority as offered by applicants Resident State. This may be accomplished either through an Original Resident License application, or the renewal of an existing License. 
• Provide either the tax identification number of the licensee (SSN for individuals and FEIN for agencies) or the NPN if the licensee already has an NPN.
  
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• Use one of the following credit cards: Visa, MasterCard, American Express.
• Accept the Terms of Use displayed when you click on BEGIN.

You can search for your national producer number using the hyperlink next to the NPN field.