International Licensure

This organization can determine if your credentials are acceptable in the U.S.

http://www.ncees.org/

Click on "International".

There is no national or international license in the United States.

Each state has its own licensing board and a license is only good in that state.

If you worked in several states you would need a license in each state.

If you are working outside the USA your seal is meaningless unless it is recognized by the local building authority in the jurisdiction where you are working.

Standarded,

Thank you, and I am actually going through the process with NCEES to get my name on the International Registry. I suppose my next avenue is obtaining information regarding licensure in Ghana where I am. Then the other countries that we do work in.

Each country will have its own licensure or joint licensures sometimes. I know australia, new zealand, and UK have a procedure that tends to not recognize american licensure for committy (particularly australia can be picky). Canada has a committy agreement with NCEES standard licensure from most US states, so you can apply for licensure relatively easily in Canada. Some countries don't have licensure processes in place. You need to check this with the country you are practicing in. There are only 2 states I know that UK will accept fairly readily for committy in licensure in some fields, California and New York, but you still have all kinds of back ground information to supply.

However, I am suspect of your current licensure, since every CE in the US knows their own licenses aren't even valid outside their own State, and a Nevada Licensed CE would definitely know this as CA doesn't give direct committy to NV PE licenses due to our State special Seismic exam and you would have known you could not work in California, which has about 1000 times the construction related business dollars as Nevada.

Thank you for all the information regarding Australia, Canada and the U.K. Actually, I am aware of the rule about only utilizing my NV stamp in NV and CA stamp in CA, etc. Since each state of the union regulates its own registered professionals, I know I am to obtain licensure in every state that I wish to do work in. I am new at international work and wasn't sure where to even start to find out where, what and who I needed to contact and obtain proper licensing and so what I am finding out is that I will have to contact every jurisdiction we have projects in. Most of them do not have licensing or stamping requirements, but some countries do, so I will have to find out with every country, which is about 20 at the moment. Again, thanks for providing some insight.