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There is no compact for nursing assistants. Your certification does not move with you — the new state decides, its own way. This checker computes your exact pair: your state, their state, your status, your training hours.
It is on your training certificate. Most state programs run 75 to 160 hours.
Your active certification endorses over with an application and background check — no new training, no new exam. About 20 states also charge no application fee.
A fee (up to $275 in Alaska), a work-history proof, fingerprints, or a form your home state must mail. New York's verification paperwork is where transfers go to die slowly.
Kansas's equivalency route can end in a one-shot challenge of its state test. New Jersey's work-experience route leads to both New Jersey exams by statute.
Michigan accepts certification from only 39 named states (LARA's published list). California holds incoming aides to its 160-hour training standard — a 75-hour program can leave a real gap. And everywhere: an inactive home certification transfers nowhere. Fix it at home first — it's cheaper.
Every destination state's own page carries the full table: what it does with an active certification from each of the other 50 registries. Pick the destination state →
