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If the VE Team can NOT verify or validate your identity...if you do NOT provide your FRN at the test session, if you don't have proper payment
prepared (noted below), or if you don't answer "The Felony Question" (noted above)...you will NOT be allowed to take the license exam(s). In this case,
if you have signed up and pre-paid, your test fee will be refunded.

Next, on the NCVEC Form 605, you will check the following boxes -- note effective April 19, 2022; except for options C, D, G, and H below, there
will also be a $35 fee, payable to the FCC, as well as whatever fee you
pay to the VE Team.

A) Examination for a new license grant. This is if you have NEVER had
an amateur radio license...OR if your previous amateur radio license
expired more than 2 years ago. You will start with the Technician
License Exam (Element 2).

B) Examination for upgrade of my license class. This is if you have a
current, valid amateur radio license (Novice, Technician, General, or
Advanced), and you are upgrading to either Technician (from Novice),
General (from Technician), or Amateur Extra (from General or Advanced).

C) Change my name on the license to the new name. This is mainly for
those who change their name via marriage, divorce, becoming widowed,
or for other issues. The applicant must provide their former name.

D) Change my mailing address to the new address at the top of the form.
You are REQUIRED to keep your mailing address with the FCC *CURRENT*.
If mail sent from them to you goes back as UNDELIVERABLE, they will
REVOKE your amateur radio license. Transmitting on a revoked license
can result in fines of $7500 to $10,000 or more, FOR EACH OFFENSE. An
email address is still required.

E) Change my callsign systematically. This is mainly useful ONLY for
those hams upgrading to Amateur Extra, and want a callsign for that
class of license...usually 2 letters, a number, and 2 more letters.
The prefix's first letter will be an "A". The applicant MUST initial
the form to confirm this. Otherwise, you will get a new callsign with
the same syntax (2 letters, a number, and 3 letters) as your current
callsign. You can NOT apply for a Vanity Callsign with this form...
that must be done at the FCC ULS website.

F) Renewal of my license grant. If your amateur radio license is
within 90 days of expiration, or within 2 years after expiration,
check this box.

G) Additional license application before the FCC. If you already have
a license application on file with the FCC, that has not been acted
on, enter the purpose of the other application. The VEC will enter
the pending file number.

H) Certification. You will then have to certify by your signature and
date, that:

a) You waive any claim to the use of any particular frequency,
regardless of prior use by license or otherwise.

b) All statements and attachments are true, complete, and correct, to
the best of your knowledge and belief, and are made in good faith.
Failing to do so is basically "committing perjury".

c) You are NOT a representative of a foreign government.

d) You are not subject to denial of Federal Benefits persuant to
Section 5310 of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, Title 21, United
States Code,  862

e) The construction of your station will NOT be an action which is
likely to have a significant environment effect (See Title 47 of the
Code Of Federal Regulations (CFR) Sections 1.1301 to 1.1319, and
Section 97.13 (a) of the FCC Rules (these are in the Part 97 Rules
door on the BBS).

f) You have read and WILL COMPLY with section 97.13(c) of the FCC
Rules, regarding Radio Frequency (RF) safety, and the amateur service
section of OST/OET, bulletin #65.

Part 97 lists the maximum permissible RF Safety limits per band,
before an RF Safety evaluation is required.

SECTION 2 (to be completed by the adminstering VE Team):

Each administering VE is to PRINT their first name, middle initial(s),
last name, and suffix, PRINT their callsign, then sign and date the
form. The signature must match the name.

As noted above, the VE's basically are putting their own licenses on
the line. According to Part 97 of the FCC Rules...if a VE team, or
individual VE, administers or certifies an exam by fraudulent means,
they could lose BOTH their VE accreditation, and their ham radio licenses
FOR LIFE.

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* Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (618:250/33)