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Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO

$500.00 USD

The Association of Canadian Psychology Regulatory Organizations (ACPRO) requires foreign-educated psychologists to complete a credentials evaluation with ICD, a division of CGFNS International, Inc., before they apply to Regulatory Organizations for licensure to practice in Canada.

The Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO includes:

  • Verification of your identity.
  • Authentication of your education (including supervised. training/practica), work experience, and licensure/registration history.
  • Evaluation of your qualifications for comparability to Canadian standards.

ICD will send your completed credentials evaluation report to the ACPRO Regulatory Organization(s) in any the following jurisdictions where you plan to apply for a license:

  • Manitoba
  • New Brunswick
  • Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Nova Scotia
  • Ontario
  • Prince Edward Island
  • Saskatchewan

You will also receive an applicant copy of the report.

Foreign-educated psychologists seeking licensure/registration in Alberta, British Columbia, Quebec, Northwest Territories, and/or Nunavut should instead contact the Regulatory Organization in those jurisdictions directly.

NOTE: Effective March 1, 2023, If you have an evaluation for British Columbia in process with ICD, and you have not received instructions for your application completion please contact ICD at 215-243-5858 Monday-Friday from 8am EST – 4pm EST and indicate to the representative that your application is still pending for British Columbia.

Foreign-educated psychologists already licensed/registered in Canada should not apply for the Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO and may visit the ACPRO website for more information.

How it Works:

1.

Click Apply Now to create an account in the ICD Applicant Portal.

2.

Inside the ICD Applicant Portal, purchase an order for the Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO using your shopping cart.

3.

Provide all required information, complete the criminal background check, and send the document request forms to your academic and professional institutions.

4.

After all requirements are received and processed, ICD will verify and assess all the documents in your file, evaluate your credentials against Canadian standards, and generate your credentials evaluation report.

5.

Your Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO report will be made available to the ACPRO Regulatory Organization(s) you selected as recipients. You will also receive a copy of your report.

6.

You may then apply for licensure with the ACPRO Regulatory Organization(s) that received your Credentials Evaluation report.

The ACPRO Regulatory Organization(s), NOT CGFNS or its ICD division, will assess your complete application and determine whether to issue your license.

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS

Documents You Will Need & How to Get Them

Identity Documents

Identity Documents
  1. Submit notarized copies of two forms of identification (one being a passport) directly to ICD that verify your current name, with no abbreviations. In addition, you must submit additional identity documents to verify any other names that you once held that may appear on any documents ICD will receive from your educational institutions, license/registration authorities, employers or language testing vendors.
  2. Acceptable forms of photo identification (ID) are:
    1. Passports (required)
    2. Driver’s License(s)
    3. Other government-issued photo identification
  3. Other acceptable forms of identification include:
    1. Birth Certificates
    2. Marriage Certificates
    3. Divorce Certificates
    4. Legal Name Change Affidavits
  4. To be acceptable, all photo IDs are required to include a clear photo of yourself (send color copies) and be current (not expired) at the time it is received by ICD.
  5. You are responsible for all fees related to preparing your notarized documents. If any of these documents are written in a language other than English, they must be translated by a certified translator.
  6. ICD does not accept original identity documents but accepts photocopies of the original document. These photocopies must be notarized copies of the original documents (signed, dated and stamped by an individual authorized to notarize documents, which could include: notary publics, attorneys, etc.). You must be with the notary at the time the original documents are copied and notarized. The notary is required to make a statement on all notarized identity document photocopies that the notary has seen the original document and that they certify that the copy is a “true copy” of the original (with the exception of a legal name affidavit which itself is an original document).

Education History

Education History
  1. You will be required to request that institutions of higher/tertiary level education send documentation regarding any education you received there that specifically contributed to your education as a psychologist directly to ICD. This might include:
    1. Psychology Education
      1. Associates Degrees
      2. Bachelor’s Degrees
      3. Master’s Degrees
      4. Doctoral/PHD Degrees
      5. Post—Doctoral Degrees
    2. Non-Psychology Education Transfer credit
      1. Any program for any discipline that preceded your psychology education for which you received transfer credit
  2. In addition to your transcripts, course descriptions, and other educational documents, make sure each of your higher/tertiary level educational institutions completes an education history form to send along with the documents.
  3. Please note: As part of your educational evaluation, ICD will also require the institutions where you have received Supervised Training/Practica experience to complete a form detailing your experiences with that organization.

License Validation

License Validation
  1. You are not required to be licensed as a psychologist currently in order to apply for ICD’s Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO. However,
  2. You will be required to request all authorities for the jurisdictions where you have been licensed/registered to send documentation to ICD regarding your license/registration history and the current status of your license to practice psychology.

Language Proficiency

Language Proficiency
  1. You are not required to submit language proficiency test results as part of your Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO application. However, if you have taken a language proficiency exam as prior to applying for the Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO and you report this exam to ICD, ICD will include your results, once received with your Credentials Evaluation report.
  2. ICD will not make any judgment regarding the sufficiency of language test results received.
  3. If you do not submit language test results as part of your Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO application, you will be required to fulfill this requirement with the Regulatory Organization in which you apply.

FEES

The fee is $500 USD

This fee is separate from ACPRO Regulatory Organizations’ licensure application fees.

FAQs

The Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO verifies, authenticates and evaluates the qualifications of psychologists educated and/or licensed outside of Canada and the U.S., and generates a credentials evaluation report for the ACPRO Regulatory Organization(s) with which they are applying for licensure.  

Our role is to:

  • receive, review and retain all documents that psychologists must provide for licensure/registration in Canada, including:
    • identity documents
    • educational transcripts and academic verification forms
    • supervised training/practica
    • license/registration verification
    • criminal background check
    • language proficiency test results.
  • ensure your documents are authentic.
  • evaluate your qualifications against Canadian standards.
  • ensure your verified documents are sent with your evaluation report to the ACPRO Regulatory Organization(s) with which you plan to apply for licensure.

For questions about the ACPRO application for licensure and psychologist standards in Canada, visit the ACPRO website.

A globally-recognized provider of credential evaluations for health and other professionals for more than 40 years, ICD was acquired by CGFNS International, Inc. in 2000. As a subsidiary of CGFNS, ICD’s mission is to provide complete, consistent and accurate educational evaluations of our client’s educational credentials, in terms of their comparability, without regard to sex, religion, country of birth or country of education.

The Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO is required for all psychologists educated outside Canada and the U.S. before applying for a license to practice in the following jurisdictions:

  • Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Nova Scotia
  • Prince Edward Island
  • New Brunswick
  • Ontario
  • Manitoba
  • Saskatchewan

Foreign-educated psychologists seeking licensure in Alberta, Quebec, Northwest Territories, Yukon and/or Nunavut are not required to complete the Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO and instead, should contact the Regulatory Organizations in those jurisdictions directly.

Psychologists educated in Canada and the U.S. also should not apply to the Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO and may apply directly to the Regulatory Organization(s) for licensure.

No. For more information about applying for registration in Canada on the ACPRO website.

Psychologists educated in Canada or the U.S., or foreign-educated psychologists seeking a license in Alberta, Quebec, British Columbia, and/or the Northwest Territories are not required to complete the Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO before applying for licensure.

No. ICD verifies, authenticates and evaluates your required documents and issues a report to the ACPRO Regulatory Organization(s) you are applying to for licensure as a psychologist.

You will then apply separately to the ACPRO Regulatory Organization(s). Your Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO report will be used by the Regulatory Organization along with the rest of your licensure application, and that Regulatory Organization will determine whether to issue you a license to practice psychology.

To complete an application for ICD’s Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO, you must:

  1. Create an account on the ICD Applicant Portal here.
  2. Complete your Personal Profile in the Applicant Portal.
  3. Purchase and Apply to the Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO.
    • Follow the instructions regarding which documentation must be submitted to ICD for verification and evaluation.
    • Once all your required documents are received and your evaluation is completed, you will receive online access to an applicant copy of your Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO report, which will also be sent to the ACPRO Regulatory Organization(s) with which you are applying for licensure as a psychologist.

The fee for the ICD’s Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO is $500 USD.

This fee is separate from individual ACPRO Regulatory Organizations’ licensure application fees.

The time it takes to complete your Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO report depends largely on how quickly you and your academic/professional institutions are able to submit all the required documentation. Once all required documents have been received and reviewed, the length of time it takes to generate your report is influenced by the complexity of your file and your country of education.

Once you purchase an order for the Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO, you have 12 months to ensure all your documents are sent to ICD or the order will expire. You can re-activate an Initial Order within 12 months of the expiry date by purchasing a Re-activation order. This may be done once per Initial Order.

You will need to supply ICD with official personal identity documents as well as documents concerning your education, supervised training/practica, license/registration, criminal background check and in some cases, English/French language proficiency exam results. Some of these documents must be submitted by the corresponding academic or professional institution and not by you directly. Specific document requirements can be found here.

No. All documents submitted to ICD for your credentials evaluation will be included with the credentials evaluation report that is automatically sent to the Regulatory Organization(s). You will receive an applicant copy but do not need to forward it to the ACPRO Regulatory Organization(s).

Yes. All documents we receive must be in English , or be accompanied by an English translation. If your schools or primary sources cannot do this, you may ask ICD to have your documents translated for a fee of $85 USD per page. We do not accept documents that have been translated by the applicant.

ICD has partnered with TruDiligence, a leading provider of applicant background screening services, to conduct International Criminal Background Checks for applicants to the Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO. 

Once you have applied and paid for your Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO order, you will have access to a portal for ICD applicants seeking a Criminal Background Check from TruDiligence. 

You will then apply for the Criminal Background Check and pay the separate fee for this service. Once your background check is completed, it will be supplied to ICD electronically. Your Criminal Background Check will be included with the rest of your completed Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO report and provided to the ACPRO regulatory membership organizations.

You are not required to submit language proficiency test results as part of your Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO application. However, if you have taken a language proficiency exam as prior to applying for the Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO and you report this exam to ICD, we will include your results, once received, with your Credentials Evaluation report. 

  • ICD will not make any judgment regarding the sufficiency of language test results received. 
  • If you do not submit language test results as part of your Credentials Evaluation for ACPRO application, you will be required to fulfill this requirement with the Regulatory Organization with which you apply for licensure. 

To check the status of your order:

  • Sign into the ICD Applicant Portal.
  • Navigate to the Application Status Tracker option of the top menu bar.
  • Locate your order and take note whether your status indicates {Waiting for Documents}.
  • Select the View Order Requirements link associated with your order.
  • View the outstanding requirements for your order, and where there is a link to a document request form, download the required form and send to the appropriate academic or professional primary source institution.

No. Fees paid to ICD are non-refundable.

Yes. If you disagree with your report, you may submit a written appeal request to ICD. A written notice of appeal must be submitted within 60 days of service deliverable to ICD for review by the appropriate ICD staff. Applicants are notified as to whether appeal request is granted or denied. Granted appeal requests are reviewed by the ICD Appeals Committee in accordance with the ICD Appeals Procedure.

A new service fee of $500 will be charged to applicants who have submitted an Appeal Request that has been granted a review by the ICD Appeals Committee. Eligible applicants will receive information and notification regarding the Appeals Procedure and will be instructed to submit their payment online. Appeal requests supported by the Appeals Committee are eligible for a refund of the service fee charged. Applicants should not remit payment until they have received the Official Appeals Procedure that explains the process in detail.

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