Hello all. If you are applying for a license in PA through reciprocity, or any other state most likely, I recommend using NCARB certification only.
I tried doing it without the certification. After eight long months of back and forth communication, including being called before the board for questioning, I threw in the towel and spent $1100 to reinstate my NCARB membership, another $385 to have the certification transferred to PA, and received my PA license in three weeks!
Don't be cheap since your TIME in LIFE is very valuable.
There have been a lot of posts about this in PA in the past, including at least two long threads in which multiple people reported the same thing you went through. PA keeps some rules on the books about alternative routes to licensure and reciprocity that, in practice, they rarely or never let anybody through by. They will let you fill out the applications for those routes, but they will not approve them without NCARB documentation.
Do your homework up front. Know the tipping point where NCARB maxes fees and penalties. If you plan on moving before then, pay them their grift. If not, then let your cert lapse and pay when you move. That way they don't get to play with your money in the meantime.
And then, if you're pissed, maybe get involved with your state's licensing board and make a difference.
Reciprocity
Hello all. If you are applying for a license in PA through reciprocity, or any other state most likely, I recommend using NCARB certification only.
I tried doing it without the certification. After eight long months of back and forth communication, including being called before the board for questioning, I threw in the towel and spent $1100 to reinstate my NCARB membership, another $385 to have the certification transferred to PA, and received my PA license in three weeks!
Don't be cheap since your TIME in LIFE is very valuable.
Thank you?
I’m sure they waved your fees if you’d reciprocate with a fluff post on archinect!
Wish someone would have had the balls to take a minute and post their lesson for me 8 months, 3 weeks ago, mr. ran doma latex.
Balls? Really? I went through the same in 2008, only my state calls it comity. I fought, and won. I didn't buckle to NCARB.
There have been a lot of posts about this in PA in the past, including at least two long threads in which multiple people reported the same thing you went through. PA keeps some rules on the books about alternative routes to licensure and reciprocity that, in practice, they rarely or never let anybody through by. They will let you fill out the applications for those routes, but they will not approve them without NCARB documentation.
Do your homework up front. Know the tipping point where NCARB maxes fees and penalties. If you plan on moving before then, pay them their grift. If not, then let your cert lapse and pay when you move. That way they don't get to play with your money in the meantime.
And then, if you're pissed, maybe get involved with your state's licensing board and make a difference.
The logical path to a personal goal is the one of least resistance.
So, if the board said you could slumpbust, or give abeej instead, you'd be down?
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@ b3tadine: wearing a pink tutu while typing BS as an underachiever
Giving yourself a thumbs up is not a good look.
Hey! Happy Thanksgiving! You ballsy mother!
@ b3tadine[sutures]
You-dah-man!
You bet your mothafuckingass I am.
Honest question - does NCARB provide any kind of financial transparency reports each year? Do people actually know where these fees go?
I often wonder why this hasn't been litigated in Federal court as an "equal protection" issue...
(Or, maybe it has, and I just haven't heard about it because the suit(s) failed.)
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