Core application evidence
Requirement
OPAL review requires official transcripts, the qualifying source license, aligned experience verification, applicable test or exemption evidence and NDE-specific fingerprints for the criminal-history review.
Which application this evidence supports
Nevada's reciprocity regulation uses a qualifying full out-of-state license, aligned field and grade level, and at least three of the previous five years of comparable successful teaching.
What can change this answer
The source credential cannot be temporary, emergency, alternative or provisional and must reflect a bachelor's degree and professional education; three of the prior five years must be in a similar assignment, while unmet Nevada testing leads only to a nonrenewable provisional license.
Conditions to resolve before sending records
- •The source license must not be temporary, emergency, alternative, provisional or otherwise restricted by discipline
- •The Nevada grade levels and subject areas must align with the source credential and experience
- •The regulation requires at least three of the five years immediately before application in a similar assignment
- •An applicant who has not met Nevada testing can receive only a nonrenewable provisional license
Send identity documents and background records only where the state agency instructs. TeachPassport does not receive them.
Official sources
Check again by 2026-11-01