Nail licence, state by state
Training hours, fees and exam languages differ in every state. These are the figures checked against the state board's own page, each line carrying the date it was checked.
States that give the exam in Vietnamese
Among the states checked, these are the ones whose board says on its own page that the exam comes in Vietnamese. A state missing from this list is not a no: it means its page does not say.
Checked
- CaliforniaExam available in VietnameseChecked September 7, 2026
- FloridaChecked September 7, 2026
- New YorkExam available in VietnameseChecked September 7, 2026
- North CarolinaChecked September 7, 2026
- OklahomaChecked September 7, 2026
- OregonExam available in VietnameseChecked September 7, 2026
- PennsylvaniaChecked September 7, 2026
- TexasExam available in VietnameseChecked September 7, 2026
- VirginiaChecked September 7, 2026
Not verified yet
These states have no page yet. What cannot be verified does not get written.
- GeorgiaThe Board's how-to page blocked every request when checked on 2026-09-07, by tool and by real browser, so the hours and fees could not be read on the state's own page. What cannot be verified does not get written.
- Massachusettsmass.gov returned HTTP 403 when checked on 2026-09-07, so the hours and fees could not be confirmed on the state's own page. What cannot be verified does not get written.
- MichiganThe requirements live in a PDF licensing guide that the state site serves only to a browser, and on 2026-09-07 its lines could not be read one by one. The Board's own landing page opens but names neither the hours nor the fees. What cannot be verified does not get written.
- New JerseyThe Board's licensing requirements page sits behind a bot wall and returned a block page instead of its content when checked on 2026-09-07. Until the hours can be read on the state's own page, this page is not written.
- WashingtonThe state's own site returned HTTP 403 and refused every request at the CDN edge when checked on 2026-09-07, both by tool and by real browser. Until every figure can be checked against the state's own page, this page is not written.