The final step you’ll need to complete before you can submit your insurance agent license application is obtaining your Bureau of Criminal Identification (BCI) background report from the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office.

This process, which is completed at the Attorney General’s Customer Service Center in Cranston, costs $5 and will initiate a background check into your past conduct to confirm you meet the state’s insurance agent regulations.

Since this is a walk-in service, you won’t need to schedule an appointment beforehand, just turn up at the following address between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on a working day:

Attorney General Julius C. Michaelson Customer Service Center
4 Howard Avenue (corner of Pontiac Ave. and Howard Ave.)
Cranston, RI 02920

Upon arrival, you’ll need to register electronically by text or using the QR located in the Customer Service Center’s parking lot. After doing this, you should receive a welcome text followed by another message letting you know you can enter the building.

After getting your BCI, you’ll be required to send it to the Department of Business Regulation by email alongside your NIPR transaction number. It’s important to do this — as well as finalize the rest of your insurance license application — within 30 days of obtaining your BCI, as this is all the time it will be valid for.