Living in U.S. Virgin Islands, working in New York

Your home state

U.S. Virgin Islands

The most useful board page in this entire survey, for a reason that has nothing to do with the Virgin Islands. VIBNL is the only board we found that publishes what to do when a lookup returns NOTHING: it names the escalation path — email the board at vinurseinfo@bnl.vi.gov, or file a missing-record request with the Nursys helpdesk. Everywhere else the empty result is a dead end you are left to interpret, which is exactly how it gets misread as “no license”. Treat this as the template for what to ask any board for. Practically: RN and LPN verify on both the VIBNL portal and Nursys; APRN and CNA verify on the VIBNL portal, so an empty Nursys result for those two is the wrong system, not a missing credential.

Where you want to work

New York

The Office of the Professions treats its online search as a primary source for verification. The part that catches people applying INTO New York is that the route depends on whether the state that issued your license participates in Nursys. Where it does, verification travels electronically. Where it does not, New York falls back to a paper instrument — Form 3, the Verification of Other Professional Licensure — which you send to your original licensing authority to complete and return to NYSED. That is a materially slower path, and it is chosen by your ISSUING state, not by you. We are deliberately not reproducing a list of non-participating states here: the lists published by different authorities disagree with each other, and at least one names a state whose own board documents its Nursys service. Check Nursys for your specific state rather than trusting any list, including ours.