Update Your Professional License

Update Your License/Account

Online

  • Log in to your professional license account.
    • You will be redirected to Secure Access Washington (SAW).
    • Access our service Board of Registration for Professional Engineers & Land Surveyors (BRPELS).
  • Your professional license must be linked to your account to make any updates.
  • If your account is not already linked, you must link your existing professional license. This does not require an activation code.
  • Address changes are immediate.

Email 

Send an email to engineers@brpels.wa.gov

  • Updates can take 7-10 business days.
  • You will receive a confirmation email when your request is completed.

Mail

  • Updates sent by mail may take 2-4 weeks to be received and processed. Any update requiring fees may take longer.
  • Include the following with mailed correspondence:
    • Professional name on License
    • License number
    • Return address
    • Email address
    • Phone number

Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
PO Box 9025
Olympia WA 98507-9025

Order a Duplicate License or Wall Certificate

Online

To request a copy of your license or a duplicate wall certificate, log in to your professional license account.

Duplicate hard copies of professional licenses cannot be requested by email. You must go online and pay a $5.00 print fee

  • At your account dashboard:
    • Manage your existing professional license.
    • Click your license number
  • Select Print License or Request Duplicate Wall Certificate.
  • Updates can take 7-10 business days.
    • Duplicate wall certificates can take 4-6 weeks
  • You will receive a confirmation email when your request is completed. 

Mail

  • Updates sent by mail may take 2-4 weeks to be received and processed. Any update requiring fees may take longer.
  • Include the following with mailed correspondence:
    • Professional name on License
    • License number
    • Return address
    • Email address
    • Phone number

If you updated your primary address and you want a license with the updated address, you must order a duplicate license. You must go online and pay a $5.00 print fee

Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
PO Box 9025
Olympia WA 98507-9025

Retired/Inactive Status

Request for retired status will be granted effective the next scheduled renewal date. (WAC 196-12-065)

Submit requests no more than 15 days prior to the expiration of your professional license.

  • There is no cost to request retired/inactive status for your professional license.
  • To place your license into retired status, you must be sixty-five and having discontinued active practice.
  • Inactive status is for PLS & OSWD only
  • There are profession specific requirements for retired status.

Online

To request your license to be placed in retired/inactive status, log in to your professional license account.

  • At your account dashboard:
    • Manage your existing professional license.
    • Click your license number
  • Select More Actions
  • Select Inactivate License

Email 

Send an email to, engineers@brpels.wa.gov

Mail

Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
PO Box 9025
Olympia WA 98507-9025