Nursery Users Processing Applications

The United States Nursery Certificate Program (US-NCP) is granted authority for processing applications with commodities shipped to countries in the Nursery program. Applications submitted to countries not in the Nursery program are required to be inspected and processed at the duty station selected in the application, like traditional applications. When an authorized nursery organization submits a nursery application (identified by the country destination), there are deviations from the typical process. The nursery organization follows the same process to create applications; however, when an organization in the US-NCP creates an application to a country identified as a participant in the Nursery Program (currently only Canada) an additional button on the Summary/Submit page appears (the Submit Nursery Application button).

NOTE: Currently Canada is the only approved nursery country. Contact the ECS for your state to be authorized as a nursery.