The Department of Business and Professional Regulation announced that electronic fingerprinting is available to all real estate licensure applicants. Electronic fingerprinting will benefit applicants by reducing the likelihood of illegible fingerprints or missing information on the fingerprint card. DBPR has contracted with Promissor, a worldwide knowledge assessment center, as an electronic fingerprinting vendor, offering applicants 15 convenient fingerprinting sites across the state.
“The department is excited about the move to electronic fingerprint reporting for real estate applicants,” said Secretary Simone Marstiller. “I encourage real estate applicants to take advantage of this new, faster, more reliable process.”
Beginning July 1, per statute, electronic fingerprinting will be mandatory for all real estate sales associate and real estate broker applicants. DBPR has taken steps to provide real estate applicants the opportunity to begin utilizing an electronic process now to submit their fingerprints.
The electronic process allows applicants to have their fingerprints scanned and electronically submitted to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Federal Bureau of Investigation. The electronic process greatly reduces the fingerprint processing time, typically taking 48 to 72 hours, whereas the paper copy method generally takes three to six weeks.
Reservations and payment can be made by visiting the Promissor reservation website at www.promissor.com and selecting Fingerprinting Services, or by calling their toll-free reservation number at 1-877-238-8232. The fee for electronic fingerprinting is $61.
Additional information regarding electronic fingerprinting may be viewed online at www.state.fl.us/dbpr/dbpr/electronic_fingerprinting/faq.pdf or www.asisvcs.com/publications/pdf/091003.pdf.
The agency’s mission is to ensure that professions and businesses provide quality services for the health, safety and welfare of citizens and visitors in the state of Florida. DBPR licenses nearly 1 million businesses and professionals ranging from real estate agents, veterinarians, and accountants to contractors and cosmetologists. For more information, please visit www.MyFlorida.com/dbpr.