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- ORI verified against your licence type
- Certified electronic capture
- Quality checked on site
- Same-day submission
- Same or next-day slots
- Reprints free if rejected
DBPR & Professional Licensing
Screening for real estate, contractor, and professional licence applicants, submitted to the correct DBPR ORI.
Overview
The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation licenses a long list of occupations, and fingerprint-based screening sits in most of those application paths. Real estate sales associates and brokers, general and specialty contractors, community association managers, appraisers, and home inspectors all pass through it before a licence is issued.
What decides whether this goes smoothly is routing. DBPR issues ORI numbers, and the correct one depends on which profession you're applying for — a real estate ORI and a contractor ORI are not interchangeable. Filed under the wrong one, your prints sit attached to an application that doesn't exist while your file shows nothing received. We check the ORI against your stated profession before capturing anything.
Who Needs It
Sales associate and broker applicants are fingerprinted before the licence is issued.
Certified and registered contractors are screened as part of licensure.
CAM licence applicants are screened before approval.
Real estate appraiser applicants and trainees fall inside the requirement.
Home inspector licence applicants are screened as part of the application.
Security officer applicants are screened under their own DBPR ORI at a reduced state rate.
Requirements
Almost every DBPR fingerprinting problem is a routing problem. Applicants arrive knowing they need prints but not which ORI applies, get filed under a guessed or generic number, and discover weeks later that the board has no record of a submission. At that point you pay again and restart the clock — and if you were racing an exam window or a start date, that's the part that actually costs you.
Your DBPR application packet or online account carries the ORI. Bring it. If you can't find it, call before you drive over from Palm Beach County and we'll help identify the right one for your profession. It's a two-minute conversation that prevents the most common and most expensive mistake in this process.
Avoid This
Real estate and contractor ORIs are not interchangeable. The wrong one means no record.
Several DBPR paths want the application filed first so results have somewhere to land.
Lapsed licences and reinstatements frequently trigger a fresh screening requirement.
Results post to your DBPR account. We transmit; DBPR posts.
How It Works
Tell us which DBPR licence you're applying for. We verify the ORI before capture.
Rolled and flat impressions on a certified scanner, quality-checked as they're taken.
Transmitted electronically to FDLE and routed to DBPR under your profession's ORI.
Results post against your DBPR application, which you track through your account.
Need fingerprinting at your office or facility? We bring the equipment to you anywhere in Palm Beach County, Clearinghouse photo included. Call for a quote.
Related
FAQ
The one DBPR issues for the real estate profession, which appears in your application packet or online account. It differs from the contractor ORI, so don't borrow a number from a colleague in another trade.
Check your packet — some DBPR paths want the application submitted first so results have a file to attach to. Screening too early can mean results that expire before the application completes.
Typically a few business days after submission. You'll see the status update in your DBPR account rather than hearing from us.
Usually not for a routine renewal on an active licence. Lapsed licences, reinstatements, and adding a new licence type frequently do.
You'll need to be printed again under the correct one — a submission can't be rerouted afterwards. Bring the paperwork and we'll confirm the right ORI before recapturing.
Yes, and it's much faster as one block. For larger groups we can come to your office by special request. Call (561) 570-6006 with a headcount.
Not automatically. Boards weigh the nature, timing, and relevance of an offence, and many licences are issued to applicants with records. That's a board decision rather than a fingerprinting one.
A valid government photo ID and your ORI. If you have the DBPR application confirmation, bring it — it settles which profession you're being screened for.
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Same or next-day slots at our downtown West Palm Beach office, Monday to Saturday. Call and we'll verify your ORI before you come in.
One flat fee, all-in — the state fee, the federal fee, and the AHCA retention fee are already inside it. Nothing is added at your appointment, and we don't charge a separate rolling fee on top.
FDLE-approved Live Scan fingerprinting for Palm Beach County. By appointment at our Downtown West Palm Beach office, just off Okeechobee Boulevard. On-site service for companies countywide.
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