Apply for an SIA licence
What to do before you apply, and how to apply for a licence yourself or through your employer.
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How to use the service
You can apply for an SIA licence yourself – or your employer may agree to apply for you . If you decide to apply for a licence yourself, you need to do the following: Create an SIA online account . Complete and submit an application form through your online SIA account. Complete the next steps of your application , such as giving us documents that prove who you are and paying the licence fee (if you are paying this yourself). Registering for a personal SIA online account Sometimes an organisation may pay the licence fee for you. For example, your employer might agree to do this, or a training provider or back to work scheme. If so, you need to link your SIA online account with their account. To do this, you need to ask them to send you a request to link with their account. You will then receive an email with instructions on how to give your permission to link accounts. Linking your personal SIA online account with a business account
Fees
It costs £204 to apply for 1 licence. On 1 April 2026 the licence application fee changed to £204. This is because we no longer provide the £20 rebate from historic reserves that we had been using to discount the fee since April 2020. Read our announcement about the fee change . All licences last for 3 years – except for a vehicle immobiliser licence , which lasts for 1 year. You may need to apply for more than 1 licence . If you apply for more than 1 licence as part of the same application, we will apply a discount of 50% to the additional licences. This means that: the first licence will cost £204 each other licence will cost £102 The discount does not apply to a vehicle immobiliser licence, which always costs £204. In the past, we applied a discount on additional licence applications made at any time. This changed on 1 June 2026. Read our announcement about the change to our discount rules . Once you have completed and submitted your application , we will ask you to pay the licence
Processing time
We cannot tell you exactly how long your application will take. This is because there are many different things that can affect the speed of your application . But if you’d like to get an estimate of how long your application will take, you can use our decision timescale indicator. The result you get depends on the information you enter – it does not guarantee how long your application will take. Use the decision timescale indicator . You can also check on the status of your application. You can do this by logging in to your online account and looking at ‘my applications’. If your status displays as: ‘next steps’ – you must follow the instructions in your next steps message to continue with your application ‘checks in progress’ – we are running our checks on your application ‘decision made’ – we have made a decision about your application We may send you a further information request during the ‘next steps’ or ‘checks in progress’ stage. You need to follow the instructions in this requ
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