In early 2025, digital certificates for the IBCLC professional certification will be issued to IBCLCs who passed the September 2024 examination, and to those who reinstated their credential by CERPs in 2024. Once this group is complete, we will begin work on certificates for candidates due to recertify in 2025.
As previously announced, this change is based on your feedback from the 2023 IBLCE customer experience survey, where a significant majority of IBCLCs in all languages indicated that they would like to receive a digital certificate more immediately rather than a paper certificate. We have already made digital certificates available to IBCLCs who passed the April 2024 examination and who recertified by CERPs in 2024.* We will continue to release IBCLC digital certificates by group.
We will continue to provide updates as they are available.
In addition to receiving your digital certificate, you can:
- Share on social media
- Add your credential to your LinkedIn profile
- Download and print your certificate
- Add your IBCLC badge to your email signature
You can learn more about using IBCLC digital certificates on the How to Use IBLCE’s Online Systems page.
IBLCE is not able to provide printed certificates while digital certificates are being released. Please note that moving forward, beginning in 2025, paper certificates and badges will be made available by request, for a fee. More information will be available in 2025.
*Candidates pending audit may receive their digital certificate in early 2025.