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Original License Documents and Identification Required
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The VE team is REQUIRED to personally VERIFY THE IDENTITY of EVERY
CANDIDATE wishing to test. This is why you need to have the ORIGINAL of
your photo ID, ham radio license, and/or CSCE, if applicable. If the VE
team suspects that ANY of these have been ALTERED or FORGED, they will
make copies of such documents, and report them to the proper authorities.

In the case of an altered/forged state government issued ID, ham radio license or CSCE, you could face heavy fines and prison time; (fines for unauthorized operation range from $7500 to $10,000, if not more).

Believe me, it's NOT worth the risk. If the FCC determines you have a "character issue", you could be stripped of your amateur radio license
FOR LIFE...or DENIED one in the first place (with "The Felony Question",
noted above).

The PHOTOCOPY of the license and CSCE's will be sent off with the license application and exam data...the ORIGINAL ID documents will be RETURNED to
their respective owners IMMEDIATELY after the VE Team has verified their identities.

Some, BUT NOT ALL, exam sites will have the capability to make the
photocopy of the identification and license documents for you, but it's
wise to check with the contact person for the exam session, to see if
that is the case.

While your name, address, callsign, and license class, are public domain
on the FCC ULS, QRZ, or other callsign data websites...other personal data (such as date of birth, home phone, email address, Social Security Number, etc.) are kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. On the QRZ website, one must actually
be "logged in" to view an email, if the person has entered the data.

Prior Exam Credit and Upgrading Examples
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Once you pass an exam element, and have either the ORIGINAL of your
license and/or valid CSCE to prove such, you won't have to take that
element again; as long as your license is unexpired, or is within the 2
year grace period of renewal after expiration.

As noted above, neither Novice or Advanced Class licenses are issued
anymore, as of April 15, 2000...and, Morse Code is NO LONGER REQUIRED for
any U.S. amateur radio license exam, as of Feb. 23, 2007. Novice and
Advanced class licensees may continue to use their privileges, as long
as their licenses aren't expired. However, they have different "exam
credit" toward upgrading, as noted below:

Item presented for license exam credit: Elements: ======================================= =========

Novice license (unexpired or expired) NONE

Technician license March 21, 1987 or later (expired >2 years) NONE
Technician license March 21, 1987 or later (expired <2 years) 2 ONLY Technician license March 21, 1987 or later (unexpired) 2 ONLY Technician license March 20, 1987 or before (expired >2 years) 3 ONLY Technician license March 20, 1987 or before (expired <2 years) 2 and 3 Technician license March 20, 1987 or before (unexpired) 2 and 3

General or Advanced license (expired >2 years) 3 ONLY
General or Advanced license (unexpired, or expired <2 years) 2 and 3

Amateur Extra (expired >2 years) 3 and 4
Amateur Extra (unexpired, or expired <2 years) 2, 3, and 4

Certificate Of Successful Completion Of Examination (CSCE) See Note

Note: If the amateur radio license was previously a General, Advanced, or Amateur EXtra Class license, that is EXPIRED MORE THAN 2 YEARS, while
credit for elements 3 (former General or Advanced Licenses), and element
4 (former Extra Class License) is given, they are WORTHLESS without the Technician Exam (Element 2). So, in this case, the examinee MUST pass
the Technician Exam to get a CSCE for either a General or Extra Class License...and they will get a new callsign from the FCC. They then can
apply for their former callsign under the vanity callsign system, if it's
still available...but it'll cost them $35 to do so, as of April 19, 2022.

A CSCE for "element credit" by itself, without any kind of ham radio
license is NOT valid for "on the air operations". You MUST already have
been issued a valid FCC Ham Radio license to legally "get on the air". If
you have been issued a CSCE within the last 365 days for the indicated
license element credit, you have credit for that element as well.

You MUST pass, or otherwise have credit for, all lower amateur radio
license classes to upgrade to a higher license class. If you are missing
one of these lower class elements, in effect, you have NO LICENSE.

Once the CSCE is older than 365 days, it is WORTHLESS. In a non-leap
year, a CSCE issued on July 1, expires at 12 midnight local time on June
30 of the following year. Using a leap year example, the expiration of
the CSCE is 12 midnight local time, June 29, of the following year.

If you fail to bring the ORIGINAL of your current license, and the
ORIGINAL of applicable CSCE's, you may be REQUIRED to take those elements AGAIN...even though you already have taken and passed them before.

If your current amateur radio license reflects the same type of license
class noted on the CSCE, you can either discard the CSCE, or keep it as
a novelty.

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* Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (316:36/20)