How to check an insurance agent's license in Georgia

How to check

1. Open Agent (Individual), Agency, Company Search, the Georgia Office of Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire's own search.
2. Search by the agent's name, or by their national producer number (NPN) or Georgia license number if you have it. The NPN is the steadier search: names repeat, and a producer has one NPN in every state.
3. Open the record and read the license type and its lines of authority, whether it is active, the expiration date, and the name on the record.
4. Compare it with what the agent told you: the same name, the same NPN, and a line of authority that covers the kind of insurance you asked about.

What the record shows

A producer record in any state is built from the same parts, though each department decides how much of it to publish:

• The license type and its lines of authority, such as property, casualty, life or personal lines.
• Whether the license is active, and the dates it was issued and expires.
• The insurers the agent is appointed with, where the department publishes appointments.
• Disciplinary actions, where the department publishes them.

In Georgia, agent licenses are kept by the Office of Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire (OCI). Its Agent (Individual), Agency, Company Search page points to License Lookup, which opens the License Inquiry Service on the Georgia Producer Portal run by Sircon. Georgia residents apply for and renew their licenses on that same portal, and nonresidents can apply there or through NIPR. OCI's toll-free line is (800) 656-2298 and its main line is (404) 656-2070.

Georgia licenses property and casualty together. OCI's guidance says an applicant must select both Property and Casualty, and that it does not license just Property or just Casualty; the path runs through a 16-hour prelicensing course and an examination. Personal Lines is a separate line of authority with its own 8-hour course and exam, and the Surplus Lines license is open only to someone who already holds the Property and Casualty agent license. A temporary license, sponsored by a single insurer, can carry only Life, Accident and Sickness, Property, Casualty or Personal Lines, and only the lines its supervising agent holds.

OCI's application guide says agent licenses must be renewed every two years by the last day of the agent's birth month. Before renewing, a resident agent with less than 20 years of service needs 24 hours of continuing education, 3 of them in ethics; beginning in 2026, agents with more than 20 years of service need 20 hours. Agents can check their CE transcript on Sircon. A complaint about an agent goes to OCI's Consumer Services Division, which calls itself the investigative arm of the office and takes complaints through its online Consumer Complaint Portal.

What we checked for Georgia

Department

Georgia Office of Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire (OCI)Source: oci.georgia.gov, checked 2026-09-22

Official search

Agent (Individual), Agency, Company Search on oci.georgia.gov, whose License Lookup link opens the Georgia Producer Portal on sircon.comSource: oci.georgia.gov, checked 2026-09-26

Search behind the link

The License Inquiry Service on the Georgia Producer Portal (Sircon), which checks individual, agency and company licensesSource: sircon.com Georgia Producer Portal, checked 2026-09-26

Help line

Toll-free (800) 656-2298; primary (404) 656-2070Source: oci.georgia.gov, checked 2026-09-26

Lines of authority

Accident and Sickness; Property and Casualty; Life; Personal Lines; Variable Products; Credit; Surplus Lines; Title; Travel Accident & Sickness; Travel TicketSource: oci.georgia.gov, checked 2026-09-26

Property and casualty are licensed together

Applicants must take both Property and Casualty; OCI does not license either one aloneSource: oci.georgia.gov, checked 2026-09-26

Property and casualty prelicensing

16-hour Property and Casualty prelicensing course plus a passing score on the Property and Casualty examSource: oci.georgia.gov, checked 2026-09-26

Personal Lines prelicensing

8-hour Personal Lines prelicensing course plus a passing score on the Personal Lines examSource: oci.georgia.gov, checked 2026-09-26

Surplus Lines

Open only to holders of the Agent Property and Casualty licenseSource: oci.georgia.gov, checked 2026-09-26

Temporary license lines

Life, Accident and Sickness, Property, Casualty and Personal Lines, limited to the supervising agent's linesSource: oci.georgia.gov, checked 2026-09-26

Renewal cycle

Every two years, by the last day of the agent's birth monthSource: oci.georgia.gov, checked 2026-09-26

Continuing education

24 hours every two years, 3 in ethics, for resident licensees with less than 20 years of serviceSource: oci.georgia.gov, checked 2026-09-26

Continuing education, 20+ years

20 hours, 3 in ethics, from 2026 for licensees with more than 20 years of serviceSource: oci.georgia.gov, checked 2026-09-26

CE carryover

Up to 50% of the biennial requirement; ethics must be taken each periodSource: oci.georgia.gov, checked 2026-09-26

What the Sircon CE transcript shows

Licensee name, start and end of the license renewal period, and the lines of authority heldSource: oci.georgia.gov, checked 2026-09-26

Nonresident licensing

Nonresidents apply through Sircon.com/georgia or NIPR.com; residents must use SirconSource: oci.georgia.gov, checked 2026-09-26

Moving out of Georgia

A Georgia resident license is not converted to a nonresident one; a new nonresident application is neededSource: oci.georgia.gov, checked 2026-09-26

Complaints

OCI Consumer Services Division, through the online Consumer Complaint PortalSource: oci.georgia.gov, checked 2026-09-26

Who investigates

The Consumer Services Division, OCI's investigative armSource: oci.georgia.gov, checked 2026-09-26

Questions

Other ways to check

• The National Insurance Producer Registry (NIPR) assigns the NPN. Ask the agent for theirs; any licensed producer has one.
• For an agent licensed in several states, check each state on its own department's search. The fifty-state list has every department.

Lookup link last checked 2026-10-12; the department's entry in our list was confirmed on 2026-09-22.