The elapsed time on a license is dominated by third parties. Your program sending a transcript. A previous board confirming a license. A vendor returning fingerprints. Each takes as long as it takes, and none of them depends on the others.
The sequential trap
The instinctive order is to do things as they appear on the checklist: submit, then order the transcript when asked, then request verifications when the board flags them missing, then find a collaborating physician once the rest looks close.
Done that way, the durations add. Three items at three weeks each become nine weeks instead of three.
Doing it in parallel
Order the transcript before filing. Request verification from every prior board at once, on day one, not as they are flagged. Start the collaborating-physician arrangement immediately in states that require one on file. Book fingerprinting straight away rather than after the application is acknowledged.
The board still takes its own time. But its clock starts when the file is complete, and the difference between a file completed in three weeks and one completed in nine is the whole saving.
Where sequence is genuinely forced
Some states will not accept a fingerprint request until an application number exists. Some payers will not open an enrollment file without a license number. Those are real dependencies. Most of the others are habit.
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