To renew your license, you need to complete a renewal application online and pay the renewal fees.
When can I renew my license?
You can renew up to 90 days before your license expiry date for on-time renewal. After the expiry date, you can late renew your license for up to 60 days. There are late fees for renewing your license late. After 60 days, the license cannot be renewed.
Am I notified when my license is due for renewal?
We will send you an email reminder 90, 60, and 30 days before your license expires. We send the notice to the email listed as your mailing address. If you don't renew your license by the expiration date, you have 60 days after expiration to late renew. After 60 days, the license cannot be renewed. We'll send a notice to your email once the license is past the late renewal period.
It is the responsibility of the licensee to know their license-expiry date. Reminders from our office are a courtesy.
Continuing education (CE) hours
You may need to complete continuing education credit hours to renew your license. Washington requires 24 credit hours of CE (3 of which are ethics credits) for these licenses to renew:
- Individual resident, full-lines producers
- Individual resident adjusters, and
- Individual non-resident adjusters who are claiming Washington as their designated home state
How do I know if I've completed CE?
For Washington residents, you can view your reported courses by logging into your account and selecting "Individual Education History." This will provide you with a PDF document with your CE history.
Only the hours in the “Credit Hours” column count toward your CE total. CE hours listed in the “Ethics Hours” column are included in the hours you see in the “Credit Hours” column.
CE credit is only applied to courses taken during your current renewal period. Your renewal period begins the day after your last expiry date and lasts until your next expiry date. If you took a course outside of that time, you will not receive CE credit, even though it may be less than 24 months from your date of completion.
Using National Insurance Producer Registry (NIPR)
You may submit renewals through NIPR. NIPR Online renewals are available starting 90 days before the license expiry date. .
We submit updates to NIPR once every 24 hours. After NIPR receives updated information, it can take anywhere from 48 hours to 10 days for it to display on NIPR. If more than 10 days have passed and your information is not displaying, contact us.