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Verify a Washington Nail Technician license

liveWA Cosmetology / Barber Board · profession key nail_tech

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

How Washington Nail Technician license verification works

A Nail Technician in Washington is licensed by the WA 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 name prior_name license_type status sub_status disciplinary_flag expires issued original_issued employer_firm city county postal_code.

Board note: WA-DOL live 2026-11-04 (same connector as real_estate): profession picklist 'Cosmetology'; credential types Cosmetologist, Barber, Esthetician, Master Esthetician, Manicurist (nail_tech), Hair Designer, Instructor, salons as Business rows. One number can carry several credentials of the same person (20000 → Barber + Esthetician + Manicurist + Cosmetologist); the claimed profession's row is judged. By number only (name search is reCAPTCHA-gated, not bypassed).

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 Washington Nail Technician license by API

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

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