Idaho
Verified Nov 8, 2026 · Source: Candidate Handbook, cover October 2025; revision footer March 2026
- Testing vendor
- Pearson VUE
- Testing format
- Available — the official program links to OnVUE online testing. Confirm that your exam is eligible before booking.
- Before registering
- Review the resident-producer eligibility and any education or approval requirements on the official state licensing page before booking.
Exam options & fees
- Life Producer$65License application basis: $80 · Source
- Accident & Health or Sickness Producer$65License application basis: $80 · Source
License application amounts are not a new charge for every exam component. Separate examinations, combined examinations and discounted sessions are labeled above.
Other licensing costs
- License application — standard Life / Health route$80Official source
- NIPR transaction — only if applying through NIPR$5.60 per applicationOfficial source
- Other vendor / processing chargesCheck the official page for any additional processing chargesOfficial source
- Fingerprinting / backgroundFingerprinting costs are listed below. Some states collect them with your application; any included charge is not an additional fee.
Go directly to the official source
Location and remote availability depend on examination eligibility, date and vendor rules.
Register for the Idaho insurance agent exam
- Review the resident-producer eligibility and any education or approval requirements on the official state licensing page before booking.
- Open the official testing program; create an account using the legal name on your identification.
- Choose the correct examination and permitted testing format, select an appointment, and pay the official examination fee.
- Keep the confirmation. Review the handbook’s exact name-match, photo ID, certificate, check-in, cancellation and retake requirements.
After passing
Apply through NIPR after passing and complete the state’s remaining licensing requirements.
Fingerprinting & background checks
- Requirement
- Required, subject to listed exemptions
- State instructions
- Resident producer candidates must complete fingerprinting before applying; prints are valid six months.
- Vendor / contact
- Pearson VUE · Idaho Department of Insurance Licensing Services
- Separate cost
- $65 electronic; $65 hard-card processing
When to fingerprint, fee details & official sources
- When in the process
- Pass examination and complete fingerprinting before applying through NIPR; fingerprints valid six months.
- Fee / route notes
- Select InsID-FPELC for electronic fingerprints or follow InsID-FPHC hard-card instructions. Send cards and payment through the approved program, rather than directly to the Department or Pearson. Any external card-collection fee requires confirmation.
Additional life-related, restricted & specialty license types (4)
These are not shortcuts to unrestricted Life & Health authority. Appointment, securities, employer, tenure and exemption conditions can apply.
Insurance Producer — Variable Life and Variable Annuity
- Examination
- No state insurance examination required for this authority
- Exam fee
- Not required — state insurance exam
- Application
- $80
Insurance Producer — Variable Annuity
- Examination
- No state insurance examination required for this authority
- Exam fee
- Not required — state insurance exam
- Application
- $80
Insurance Producer — Credit
- Examination
- No state insurance examination required for this authority
- Exam fee
- Not required — state insurance exam
- Application
- $80
Life Settlement Broker — Life Settlement
- Examination
- No state insurance examination required for this authority
- Exam fee
- Not required — state insurance exam
- Application
- $300
Non-resident licensing summary
Already licensed in another state? Qualifying matching Life / A&H authority usually does not require a new target-state exam. Home-state-dependent fees, fingerprint exemptions and other conditions differ from the resident path. Confirm your final eligibility and payment total on the official application.
Non-resident state fees
- Life-only state application
- $80
- A&H-only state application
- $80
- Life + A&H in the same application
- $80
- NIPR transaction — separate, only for NIPR applications
- $5.60 general initial-application transaction fee; confirm the final charge for your selected state and application with NIPR before paying.
Per application; Idaho does not charge to amend an existing license.
Fingerprinting & background
- Requirement
- Not required on the qualifying reciprocal pathway — see official scope and exceptions
- State instructions
- NIPR nonresident fingerprint rule specifies Bail Bond Agent; ordinary producer Life/A&H not in that class.
Continuing education and other notes
No Idaho CE for nonresident producers; maintain home-state CE. Requested line must first be on resident license. Life is prerequisite/co-application for Variable Life/Annuity. Fingerprint rule in NIPR initial page is for Bail Bond Agents, not ordinary producers.
Non-resident license types
Insurance Producer
- Lines
- Life
- Fee
- $80
Insurance Producer
- Lines
- Accident & Health (Health/Sickness)
- Fee
- $80
Insurance Producer
- Lines
- Life, Accident & Health (Health/Sickness)
- Fee
- $80
Both authorities on one application, not necessarily a distinct combined license class.