Final submission check

Content

• Application form complete, with one expertise and one employment type selected.
• Infrastructure candidates: engineering description selected and report summary provided.
• Certified copies of qualifications included, where ICE does not already hold them.
• Certified translations where a qualification is not in English.
• Evidence of IPD completion included, and registered with ICE.
• Two-page CV.
• Report within the word limit, with a signed cover page carrying a recent photo.
• Lead sponsor's name, signature and membership number on the cover page.
• Appendices within 3 sides of A3 and 12 sides of A4.
• CPD: development action plan for the next 12 months, plus the personal development record for the required period.
• CPD includes current formal health, safety and welfare training.
• Individual requirements stated on the form, with evidence.

Mechanics

• Everything combined into a single PDF.
• Under 15 MB.
• Made by converting to PDF electronically rather than scanning, wherever possible.
• Font size appropriate: ICE gives Arial 11 as an example.
• Prints legibly, and reads in black and white.
• Internal hyperlinks work in the combined PDF, both ways.
• No hyperlink points outside the application.
• Page numbering continuous, contents pages accurate.

Before the upload button

• The fee is paid: non-refundable, and paid before uploading.
• Both sponsors have uploaded their statement of support to the sponsors portal.
• I have confirmed that, rather than assumed it.
• I have used the correct route: the upload portal for civil candidates, email for infrastructure candidates.
• I have read ICE's own application checklist in the current guidance and worked through it.
• I have kept my own copy of the exact file I submitted.
• I have diarised the 10-working-day acknowledgement, and know I would have 48 hours to supply anything missing.

Questions to ask yourself

1. Have I confirmed (not assumed) that both sponsors have uploaded?

   ICE makes this your responsibility explicitly, and it is the most common reason an otherwise complete application is held up.

2. Would I be comfortable being questioned on every page of this?

   Everything in the report and appendices is open to questioning, and reviewers go where the writing is thinnest.

3. Has anyone with authority cleared the confidential and security-sensitive content?

   It is much easier to check now than to explain afterwards, and ICE recommends your information security manager reads it.

Official sources

Selected publisher pages were rechecked in September 2026. Other source records were last checked in July 2026. Open the latest official document before relying on a requirement.