Requirements for All Applicants

• Submit completed, signed and notarized application to the Board office.

• Enclose processing fee by check or money order made payable to “State of Delaware.”

• Arrange for the Board office to receive an official transcript sent directly from your chiropractic college. The college must be accredited and the transcript must show that you have earned a degree of Doctor of Chiropractic degree.

• If you have ever held a license in another jurisdiction (state, U.S. territory or District of Columbia), arrange for the Board office to receive verification of licensure from each jurisdiction where you have ever held a license, sent directly from the jurisdiction to the Board office.

• Arrange for the Board office to receive an official score report from the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners (NBCE) sent directly from NBCE to the Board office.
• To request a score report, go to the NBCE website.
• For information on the score requirements, see the Score Requirements section below.

• Request a self-query from the National Practitioner and Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Banks (NPDB/HIPDB) website at www.npdb-hipdb.hrsa.gov. The self-query report will be mailed to your address. When you receive the report, mail (do not fax) the originalreport to the Board office.

• If you have never been issued a U.S. Social Security Number (SSN), submit a Request for Exemption from Social Security Number Requirement.

Score Requirement

The score requirement that you must meet depends on whether you hold a current license in a jurisdiction where the licensure requirements are substantially similar to those in Delaware. The following table shows which jurisdictions have substantially similar requirements and which do not:

SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR		NOT SUBSTANTIALLYSIMILAR
Alaska California Connecticut Florida Hawaii Idaho Iowa Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Minnesota Mississippi	Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Mexico North Carolina Oklahoma South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Wyoming	Alabama Arizona Arkansas Colorado District of Columbia Georgia Illinois Indiana Kansas Kentucky Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey	New York North Dakota Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin U.S. Virgin Islands

• If you are not currently licensed in any other jurisdiction OR if you are currently licensed in any jurisdiction with substantially similar licensure requirements, your NCBE score transcript must show that you passed all the parts of the National Examination.

• If you are licensed only in jurisdictions that do not have substantially similar licensure requirements, the score requirement depends on when you graduated as shown in this table.

IF you graduated…	THEN the score report must show that you passed these exam Parts:
On or after July 1, 1997	I, II, III, IV, and physiotherapy
After Jan. 31, 1991 but before July 31, 1997	I, II, III
Before Jan. 31, 1991	I, II, III or I, II, and Special Purpose Exam for Chiropractors (SPEC)

• If you do not meet the requirement in the table above, the Board may accept proof that you passed the examinations that were available at the time you graduated and were originally licensed.