Credentials Verification and Evaluation for Regulatory Authorities

How much does your credentials verification process cost you today?

Whether you need to outsource some or all of your current credentials verification process or need support setting up an evaluation program for the first time, we can help.

This is our core business.

For nearly 50 years, we’ve been providing credentials verification, evaluation, and certification services to support the career mobility of nurses and other allied health workers seeking entry to practice in a new country. We understand that minimum standards for training, credentialing, and clinical practice exist to protect the public good and promote patient safety. It is our job to ensure those standards have been met through rigorous verification and evaluation of a candidate’s identity, academic records, certifications, licensures, and job experience.

With a growing critical shortage of nurses and health workers, there is a global demand for skilled, work-ready care team members. Foreign-educated nurses can be an answer to that challenge if the right process is in place to evaluate their training and skills. We can support your internal operations and help you streamline and improve your overseas applicant process.

We can help

We can build a right-fit solution for your organization by leveraging these core capabilities:

How we verify

We employ a rigorous, three-phase process for verifying an applicant’s identity, academic records, licensure, employment, and English Language Proficiency—with multiple fraud checkpoints across that process. (View our fraud policy)

Our core services

CGFNS offers a comprehensive set of services to support career mobility for healthcare professionals in partnership with regulatory bodies who plan to or are currently governing entry to practice for specific health occupations.

Verification

Provides an easy, direct and secure way for internationally qualified nurses (IQNs) to have their credentials authenticated and verified. This includes:

Evaluation

Provides everything assessed under Verification plus a more detailed analysis of nursing credentials earned, including:

Certification

Provides everything assessed under Verification and Evaluation, plus CGFNS Qualifying Exam, available in 100+ countries.

Identity Verification. Name, aliases and self-identifying data, with corresponding government-issued IDs.

Academic Record Review. Details of nursing education, including confirmation of accreditation (date of accreditation and body) of institution(s) attended, nursing curriculum (clinical & theoretical) hours by nursing domain.

Licensure Verification. Professional registration(s) by jurisdiction/registry body, corresponding award/expiry dates, and any encumbrances/restrictions.

Employment Attestation. Employment history, including estimated hours of nursing practice.

Specialty Certification. Confirmation of certification or details of education that supports certification.

Detailed analysis of credentials with a comparability statement assessed against a set of standards.

CGFNS Qualifying Exam (available in 100+ countries).

Our core services

CGFNS offers a comprehensive set of services to support career mobility for healthcare professionals in partnership with regulatory bodies who plan to or are currently governing entry to practice for specific health occupations.

Verification

Provides an easy, direct and secure way for internationally qualified nurses (IQNs) to have their credentials authenticated and verified. This includes:

Identity Verification. Name, aliases and self-identifying data, with corresponding government-issued IDs.

Academic Record Review. Details of nursing education, including confirmation of accreditation (date of accreditation and body) of institution(s) attended, nursing curriculum (clinical & theoretical) hours by nursing domain.

Licensure Verification. Professional registration(s) by jurisdiction/registry body, corresponding award/expiry dates, and any encumbrances/restrictions.

Employment Attestation. Employment history, including estimated hours of nursing practice.

Specialty Certification. Confirmation of certification or details of education that supports certification.

Evaluation

Provides everything assessed under Verification plus a more detailed analysis of nursing credentials earned. This includes:

Identity Verification. Name, aliases and self-identifying data, with corresponding government-issued IDs.

Academic Record Review. Details of nursing education, including confirmation of accreditation (date of accreditation and body) of institution(s) attended, nursing curriculum (clinical & theoretical) hours by nursing domain.

Licensure Verification. Professional registration(s) by jurisdiction/registry body, corresponding award/expiry dates, and any encumbrances/restrictions.

Employment Attestation. Employment history, including estimated hours of nursing practice.

Specialty Certification. Confirmation of certification or details of education that supports certification.

Detailed analysis of credentials with a comparability statement assessed against a set of standards.

Certification

Provides everything assessed under Verification and Evaluation, plus CGFNS Qualifying Exam, available in 100+ countries. This includes:

Identity Verification. Name, aliases and self-identifying data, with corresponding government-issued IDs.

Academic Record Review. Details of nursing education, including confirmation of accreditation (date of accreditation and body) of institution(s) attended, nursing curriculum (clinical & theoretical) hours by nursing domain.

Licensure Verification. Professional registration(s) by jurisdiction/registry body, corresponding award/expiry dates, and any encumbrances/restrictions.

Employment Attestation. Employment history, including estimated hours of nursing practice.

Specialty Certification. Confirmation of certification or details of education that supports certification.

Detailed analysis of credentials with a comparability statement assessed against a set of standards.

CGFNS Qualifying Exam (available in 100+ countries).

Why work with us

#1

We handle applicants from almost anywhere.

Health workers come to us from over 200 sending countries.

#2

Our average turnaround time is 10 days.

Our typical verification report is less than 10 days from the time all primary source documents have been received and accepted.

#3

We’re serious about data security.

#4

We’ve been doing this for a long time. And we’re really good at it.

We have been in the industry longer than our competitors.

47+ years in operation
250+ employees
650,000 credentials verified annually
80,000 applications processed annually
130,000 reports issued annually

Who pays?

In most instances, we administer these services on behalf of the regulator and in alignment with their requirements, but the applicant pays us directly. However, we can work with a client team to find the best approach to program management that would support a regulator’s goals for lowering costs, eliminating overhead, streamlining processes, and/or sustaining revenue.

Get a free consultation

Let’s set up some time to discuss your needs. Our business development team can walk you through our program offerings and help you assess your current goals and challenges. We can whiteboard that process together and help you get where you need to go.

Additional Resources

We work with international regulators to build programs that align with the evolving dialogue around global best practices for training, equipping, and empowering nurses and other health workers in a time of global shortage and evolving care delivery models. Here are some resources that can help you as you consider that process.

International Nurse Regulator Collaborative (INRC)
76th World Health Assembly ICN Report: Nursing Advocacy & Influence in Global Health Policy
ICN Interntional Nurses Day 2023 Report
Recover to Rebuild: Investing in the Nursing Workforce for Health System Effectiveness

CGFNS International will be closed on Thursday, November 28 and Friday, November 29 for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. Regular hours will resume on December 2, 2024.
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