The usual steps
- Create or use a MyPSC account and submit the online application
- Submit lawful-presence documentation and official transcripts
- Provide the out-of-state certificate or program-completion evidence
- Provide assessment scores and experience verification when applicable
- Pay the published processing fee
What can change your path
- • Three or more qualifying years can support a Professional certificate; less than three can lead to an Induction certificate
- • Missing content-knowledge or literacy requirements may result in a one-year certificate with deficiencies
- • Georgia issues only comparable fields and reciprocity applicants do not qualify for Provisional certification in the reciprocity field
What the state says
These facts come from official sources. The state agency still makes the final licensing decision.
Experience boundary
An otherwise qualified out-of-state educator with at least three years of successful full-time experience may qualify for a Georgia Professional certificate; an educator with less than three years may qualify for an Induction certificate.
Georgia-specific requirements
Unmet content-knowledge or literacy requirements can produce a one-year Non-Renewable Professional or one-year Induction certificate that must be cleared before extension.
Core evidence
Published guidance lists the MyPSC application, lawful-presence evidence, official transcripts, an out-of-state certificate or program verification, assessment scores and experience verification as applicable.
Processing fee
GaPSC's document guide lists a $20 MyPSC processing fee for the covered initial out-of-state teaching transactions; confirm the current amount at filing.
Why your details matter
State websites describe the possible routes. The right one for you can depend on your license, preparation, experience, subjects, grades, tests, National Board status and compact eligibility. TeachPassport uses those details to build your checklist and keeps checking the state’s rules.
One thing to know: Three years of successful full-time out-of-state experience is a key boundary between the Professional and Induction routes, while field comparability and unmet Georgia-specific requirements can change the issued certificate.