Iowa
Verified Nov 8, 2026 · Source: Candidate Handbook, cover July 2025; revision footer January 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$44License application basis: $50 · Source
- Accident & Health$44License application basis: $50 · Source
- Credit (12-IA-29)$44License application basis: $50 · 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$50Official 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 Iowa 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
- Initial Iowa resident producers provide fingerprints and state/federal criminal-history checks. Renewals generally need no repeat unless a license is reissued after revocation or suspension.
- Vendor / contact
- Fieldprint + Iowa DCI · producer.licensing@iid.iowa.gov; 515-654-6628; Fieldprint 877-614-4364
- Separate cost
- $37.35 at an Iowa Fieldprint site; $39.35 outside Iowa
When to fingerprint, fee details & official sources
- When in the process
- Submit the NIPR application first; the confirmation provides the Fieldprint code. Results generally reach the Iowa Insurance Division 3–5 business days after collection.
- Fee / route notes
- Applicant pays. Use IID code and NPN from NIPR confirmation; fingerprints taken for another purpose cannot be reused.
Additional life-related, restricted & specialty license types (2)
These are not shortcuts to unrestricted Life & Health authority. Appointment, securities, employer, tenure and exemption conditions can apply.
Insurance Producer — Credit
- Examination
- Credit (12-IA-29)
- Exam fee
- $44
- Application
- $50
Insurance Producer — Variable Life & Variable Annuity
- Examination
- No state insurance examination required for this authority
- Exam fee
- Not required — state insurance exam
- Application
- $50
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
- $50
- A&H-only state application
- $50
- Life + A&H in the same application
- $50
- 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; no amendment fee. Fingerprinting may be an additional cost depending on prior home-state insurance-department checks.
Fingerprinting & background
- Requirement
- Conditional — review official home-state rules on the interactive map and the target-state instructions
- State instructions
- Fingerprints are required for an initial or added-line non-resident application unless your current home-state insurance department has already completed both state and national criminal-history checks. Apply before obtaining the Fieldprint code. The Iowa Insurance Division lists $37.35 in Iowa or $39.35 outside Iowa; its explicit requirement applies even though NIPR omits this step.
Continuing education and other notes
Home-state CE satisfies nonresident requirement when home state requires CE. Iowa fingerprint rule now covers nonresident producers without prior state/national criminal history check by current resident state DOI; NIPR initial page mentions appraisers/umpires but omits that producer condition. Follow IID’s explicit producer fingerprint page.
Non-resident license types
Insurance Producer
- Lines
- Life
- Fee
- $50
Insurance Producer
- Lines
- Accident & Health (Health/Sickness)
- Fee
- $50
Insurance Producer
- Lines
- Life, Accident & Health (Health/Sickness)
- Fee
- $50
Both authorities on one application, not necessarily a distinct combined license class.
General non-resident rules
- Current home-state insurance department has not already completed both state and national criminal-history checksFingerprints required for Iowa nonresident producer initial/add-LOA application; a prior check by an earlier home state is not the stated current-home-state exemption.
Source differences
- Nonresident fingerprint condition omitted by NIPRFollow IID: prints needed unless both state and national criminal-history checks already completed by current home-state insurance department. Apply before obtaining Fieldprint code.