Application For An Optometry License - New Jersey State Board Of Optometrists
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13New Jersey Office of the Attorney General
Division of Consumer Affairs
New Jersey State Board of Optometrists
124 Halsey Street, 6th Floor, P.O. Box 45012
Newark, New Jersey 07101
(973) 504-6440
Optometrist
Application Instructions / Checklist
Use this checklist to determine whether you have complied with all of the requirements for licensure in New Jersey as an
optometrist. Once your application has been received, a file will be established and you will be notified regarding any missing
documents or fees.
Application Fee:
Please enclose a nonrefundable check or money order in the amount of $125.00 made payable to the “New Jersey State
Board of Optometrists” and mail it with your application to: New Jersey State Board of Optometrists, P.O. Box 45012,
Newark, NJ 07101.
Licensure Fee (Active Status or Inactive-Paid Status)
Answer all of the questions on each page of the application.
Attach a clear, full-face, passport-style photograph (2”x2”) of your head and shoulders, taken within the past six months,
to the front page of the application. Please sign and print your name along with the date on the back of the photo.
Enter your Social Security number.
All applicants who have had a name change due to naturalization, marriage, divorce or other decrees, must submit
legal documentation of their name change.
Have your school(s) (undergraduate and optometry university) forward an official transcript directly to the Board office.
If you have taken the National Board of Examiners in Optometry (NBEO) Exams for Part I, Part II, Part III and the Treatment
and Management of Ocular Disease (TMOD) exam, please contact the NBEO to have your official exam scores sent
directly to the Board. If you wish to request your exam scores in writing, the address is: National Board of Examiners
in Optometry, 200 South College St., Suite 1920, Charlotte, North Carolina 28202, and their contact numbers are
704-332-9565 and 1-800-969-3926. Also, you may contact them by e-mail at: .
If you have taken the North East Region Clinical Optometric Assessment Testing Service (NERCOATS) exam or any other
state’s clinical or written exam, you must contact the state board in the state where you took the exam and request that
the board send confirmation, on their letterhead, that you took and passed the exam, and also provide an outline of
your official test and your scores, and send that information directly to the Board office at: New Jersey State Board of
Optometry, P.O. Box 45012, Newark, New Jersey 07101.
A verification letter from the optometry school must be mailed directly by the registrar of that accredited school of
optometry to the Board.
A verification letter from an optometry school which applies to any person who graduated prior to 1992 that will verify
that his or her therapeutic education is substantially equivalent to that of a graduate after 1992. If you completed a
30-hour or 100-hour course in order to be qualified to take the TMOD examination, then please have your registrar
mention this in your verification letter. If you graduated after 1992, the verification letter is not required; your optometry
school transcript is sufficient.
Applicants who are foreign educated must have a Credential Evaluation completed in the United States by one of the
accredited optometric schools. They will determine if your education is substantially equivalent to that of a current
graduate of an optometric school in the U.S. To find an accredited optometric school in the U.S., please go to the
National Board of Examiners in Optometry website at:
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