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Verify a New York Nail Technician license

liveNY Cosmetology / Barber Board · profession key nail_tech

Live. We query the board directly for every check and the nightly canary is passing.

How New York Nail Technician license verification works

A Nail Technician in New York is licensed by the NY Cosmetology / Barber Board. PrimaryCheck looks the license up live at the board's public verification system (board lookup) by license number, or by name when no number is supplied. The record the board publishes is captured as evidence, hashed, and rendered into a proof PDF.

Fields returned for this board: license_number license_type license_holder_name license_effective_term license_expiration_date.

Board note: NY-DOS-OPEN: Department of State Division of Licensing Services licence file 'Active Appearance Enhancement and Barber Individual Licenses' on Open NY (data.ny.gov ucu3-8265, 224,531 rows, refreshed daily; the Division's own lcns_public search page points licence checks to the License Center and to this Open NY file + API). SODA query per verification, freshness gate 4 days. Types: Appearance Enhancement Operator - Cosmetology / Esthetics / Nail Specialty (+ Temporary = flag), Barber - Operator; Waxing, Natural Hair Styling, Nail Specialty Trainee and Barber - Apprentice are type mismatches. Active licences only (lapsed/revoked = not found); name printed LAST FIRST MIDDLE; no DOB, no discipline. Live 2026-11-04 on AEC-15-05266, 22SM1282391, AEE-25-00890, 26TH1039449, 16SM4060963. The Division's License Center lookup for these licences was not probed.

What a Nail Technician license check returns

Field checkPasses when
license_numberEqual to the board's number, ignoring prefix and leading zeros
nameLast name or declared alias matches; first name exact or nickname
license_typeThe record is a Nail Technician license, strictly (no near-miss types)
statusThe board shows an active status; probation is active with a flag
expiresExpiration is on or after today, where the board publishes it
disciplinary_actionsRecorded and flagged with any order documents; never silently dropped

Verdicts: verified, discrepancy, not_found, unable_to_verify (with a reason), pending. See how verdicts are decided.

Verify a New York Nail Technician license by API

POST https://api.primarycheck.com/v1/verifications
{
  "person": { "firstName": "…", "lastName": "…" },
  "claims": [
    { "type": "license", "state": "NY", "profession": "nail_tech", "number": "…" }
  ],
  "purpose": "employment",
  "consent": { "consentId": "cons_…" }
}

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