Whether you are moving, taking a job across a state line or practicing tele-optometry, we prepare every state license you need: on NBEO scores, by endorsement or through a state exam, with law exams, therapeutic and laser credentials and every renewal after that. You answer, sign and sit the exams; we do the rest.
We handle the paperwork, the verifications and the board follow-up so you can keep seeing patients.
There is no optometry compact, so every new state is a full license. The three routes for licensed optometrists →
We map where you hold licenses today and where you want to practice, then sort every state into a route: NBEO scores, endorsement after years of practice, or a state exam. We check what stalls optometry files before you pay a non-refundable fee: missing NBEO parts, TMOD and ISE, years of practice, law exams, scope tiers and once-a-year exam dates.
We prepare every supporting document and a question-by-question guide for each state, and order verifications from every state you have held a license in, NBEO score reports and an NPDB self-query. You answer, sign, pay the board and sit every exam; we track the file and help you answer board questions until a decision.
Every license renews on its own date with its own CE rules and mandated topics. We keep one calendar for all of them and remind you before each deadline; you renew.
47 jurisdictions show a verified route for licensed optometrists on NBEO scores or by endorsement. There is no optometry compact, so every state is a full license. Pick a state to see what it takes.
Optometrists licensing in a new state or adding states, and the practices, optical chains, ophthalmology groups and tele-optometry companies that employ them. Vision plan and payer credentialing is handled by our sister team at whiteglovecredentialing.com.
No. There is no optometry compact and none is in progress, so every additional state is a full license. The three routes for licensed optometrists.
Most, on NBEO scores or by endorsement after years of practice, usually with a law exam. North Carolina and Oklahoma give their own exams to everyone, and Oklahoma only once a year. Our state guides cover each one.
You answer and sign your own application, pay the board and sit every exam. We prepare every supporting document and a guide to each question, order your verifications and NBEO score reports, and can send a signed paper application for you. Board portals and NBEO accounts stay in your own login.
Not automatically. Each state licenses optometrists in its own scope tiers, and laser procedures are allowed only where a state’s statute or rule says so. We match your training to each state’s tier before you apply.
No. DEA requires a registration for each state where you prescribe controlled substances, and some states add their own controlled substance license. We prepare both alongside your license.
Yes. Employers licensing several doctors in new states get every file prepared on one timeline and one renewal calendar for the team.
You renew them; we keep every renewal date, CE requirement and mandated topic on one calendar, remind you ahead of each deadline and prepare what the board needs.
White Glove Optometry takes the paperwork out of licensing for optometrists. We prepare it end to end: verifications from every state you have held a license in, NBEO score reports, an NPDB self-query, law exam scheduling, and therapeutic, glaucoma and laser credentials. You answer, sign and sit every exam; we track it to a decision.
There is no optometry compact and none is coming, so each new state is a full license on its own terms. We check your NBEO parts, years of practice and scope against each state and tell you the route before you pay a board fee.
From intake to issued license, we carry the board correspondence and keep every renewal and continuing education deadline on one calendar, so nothing lapses underneath your schedule.
Licensing delays have real costs — a start date missed, a caseload that cannot open, a payer contract that stalls behind a credential.
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licensure compacts for optometrists
AOA's work group found no unanimous need or urgent nationwide desire for one, and none exists as of October 2026. Every state you practice in needs its own full license.
$1,490
NBEO fee for each of Parts I, II and III, from August 2026
Your scores travel to every board, but only if the right parts are on file and the reports go straight from NBEO. We check before you pay a board fee.
45,100
optometrist jobs in the US (BLS, 2025)
With about 2,000 openings a year and employers in every state, many optometrists license in more than one. Each state is its own file, exam and renewal.
"Licensing in a new state looks simple from the outside: send the license, start seeing patients. In practice it is a chain of dependencies: verifications from every state you have held a license in, NBEO score reports, an NPDB self-query, a law exam, sometimes a state exam given once a year. Any one of them can delay a start date. We built White Glove Optometry to hold that whole chain so clinicians do not have to."
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