Nonresident Producer Licensing
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Application & Requirements
Types of Licenses
Maintaining Nonresident License
Renewals
License Surrender
Nonresident Producer Licensing Application & Requirements
New License
To apply for a Kansas Nonresident Insurance Producer license, you must satisfy or meet the following requirements:
- Be at least 18 years old.
- Submit the NAIC Uniform Application for Individual Insurance Producer License online via the National Insurance Producer Registry (NIPR).
- Payment of $50.00 application fee (collected when application submitted to NIPR). Application fees are nonrefundable.
- Upon request, provide evidence of active FINRA registration if Variable Contracts authority is desired.
Types of Licenses
A nonresident license is issued based upon the applicant’s license authority in the state of residence. The Kansas Department of Insurance grants the following types of licenses:
Major Lines
- Life
- Accident and Health or Sickness
- Variable Life and Variable Annuity
- Property and Allied Lines
- Casualty and Allied Lines
- Personal Lines
Limited Lines:
- Crop Only
- Title Only
- Public Adjuster
- Pre-Need Only
- Bail Bond Only
- Travel
- Viatical Settlement Broker
- Reinsurance Intermediary
- Excess/Surplus Lines
- Self-Service Storage
Maintaining Your Nonresident License
Requirements for maintaining your Nonresident Insurance Producer license in Kansas:
- You must maintain a resident license in your home state for the same lines of authority that you are qualified for in Kansas.
- Secure company certification (appointments). An appointment is required by each company for which business is transacted in Kansas.
- You must keep a current business email address on file with the Department. Renewal notices and other communications are only sent electronically via email.
- You are required to notify the Department of, within 30 days of occurrence, any changes in home address, mailing addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses. These must be reported via a Contact Change Request (CCR) through NIPR. Do not notify the Department directly of these changes.
- You are also required to notify the Department of, within 30 days of occurrence, any regulatory actions, terminations for cause, actions taken against a license in another state, and/or new convictions. These must be reported to the Department by uploading a written statement along with supporting documentation to the NIPR Attachment Warehouse as a Reporting of Action “ROA.”
License Renewal
Nonresident producers renew their licenses biennially. Nonresident producers must pay a $50 biennial license fee and submit a renewal application through NIPR (nipr.com) before the end of their biennial renewal. Renewal fees are nonrefundable. Renewals generally may be completed up to 90 days prior to their biennial due date.
The biennial due date is the last day of the producer’s birth month in each odd year for producers born in an odd-numbered year or each even year for producers born in an even-numbered year. For newly licensed producers, such date shall not be earlier than two years from the date of the producer’s initial licensure. Renewal is done through NIPR.
If a nonresident producer license is nonrenewed for failure to meet the biennial renewal requirements, they must submit a renewal application, pay the $50 biennial license fee, and pay a $100 fee for failure to timely renew. All fees and the renewal application must be submitted through NIPR (nipr.com). Failure to timely renew (within 90 days of your biennial renewal date) will result in termination of your nonresident license and you will be required to reapply through NIPR. A $100.00 reinstatement fee is applied up to 4 years past the license expiration date.
License Surrender
To surrender a nonresident insurance license, the producer should complete and submit the Request to Surrender License form online. The license must be active and in good standing for the Department to consider the surrender request for processing.
If you want to obtain a license in the future, you will be required to apply and complete all requirements necessary for new applicants.
Contact
Kansas Department of Insurance
1300 SW Arrowhead Rd.
Topeka, KS 66604
Phone: 785-296-3071
Consumer Hotline: 800-432-2484
Email: KDOI@ks.gov