Eligible applicants include current or former employees of accredited or licensed educational institutions (US/UK/CA/AUS) serving any level from early childhood through post-secondary education, including public, charter, private, parochial, and vocational cooperatives. This covers classroom teachers, professors, lecturers, adjuncts, teaching assistants, substitutes, specialists, instructional coaches, counselors whose primary role is instructional, department chairs, deans, librarians, residence educators, educational technologists, and administrators with active teaching duties. Acceptable proof may be any official document that reasonably links the individual to the institution, such as a staff ID, faculty badge, current semester course roster bearing the applicant’s name, employment contract, pay statement, HR letter, certification of hire, or other institution-issued record showing affiliation. Documents may reflect full-time, part-time, seasonal, temporary, or retired status as long as the connection to teaching employment is clear.

Individuals eligible for this community are anyone who can demonstrate current or former service with a public-sector entity at any tier of government (US/UK/CA/AUS). This includes federal departments and agencies, armed-forces components and their civilian workforce, legislative or judicial offices, and every state, provincial, territorial, tribal, county, parish, municipal, township, or special-district body such as courts, law enforcement, fire and rescue, public schools and universities, utilities, libraries, transit authorities, housing agencies, public hospitals, regulatory boards, and other publicly funded institutions. Qualifying relationships cover full-time, part-time, seasonal, reserve, auxiliary, grant-funded, appointed or elected positions, whether career civil service, political, or uniformed. Acceptable evidence may be an official photo ID, badge, credential, pay or pension record, W-2 or equivalent, onboarding or separation letter, contract or certificate of appointment.

Includes current and former military personnel (US/UK/CA/AUS), National Guard members in either federal or state status, drilling or Individual Ready Reservists, service-academy or contracted ROTC cadets and midshipmen, Veterans and retirees of any discharge characterization, and prior-service individuals no longer in uniform. Eligible dependents encompass spouses, children, surviving spouses, Gold Star parents or children, and others who qualify for a DoD or VA dependent credential. Proof may be established with documents such as a DD-214, DD-256, NGB-22, separation or retirement orders, award citations, VA or VHIC card, Leave and Earnings Statement, W-2, 1099-R or other pay document from DFAS, USAA or Navy Federal account confirmation, enlistment contract, or similar paperwork that clearly demonstrates current or past military affiliation.

Eligibility extends to current or former members of public-safety agencies (US/UK/CA/AUS) whose official duties involve emergency response, public protection, or the provision of immediate medical or life-saving care. This includes sworn law-enforcement officers at local, state, or federal levels—such as police, sheriffs, constables, marshals, highway patrol, campus police, park rangers, and special agents; career or volunteer firefighters, fire marshals, and fire investigators; licensed EMS personnel such as emergency medical technicians and paramedics; and licensed healthcare professionals whose primary responsibilities involve urgent or acute care. Employees of public-safety or emergency organizations—such as dispatchers, corrections officers, detention or probation staff—also qualify, as do enforcement employees of the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, and similar agencies. Roles that do not carry statutory emergency-response authority or direct responsibility for public safety operations—such as private security personnel, bounty hunters, fugitive recovery agents, tow truck operators, utility workers, and commercial airline crew members—are not eligible. These are treated as separate communities from the First Responder community and must be manually enabled by the business utilizing VerifyPass.

This community is open to anyone who has been formally awarded a doctoral degree—academic or professional—by an accredited or otherwise government-recognized institution anywhere in the world. Eligible credentials include research doctorates such as PhD, DPhil, EdD, DBA, DrPH, ScD, EngD, and equivalent titles in any language, as well as professional doctorates like MD, DO, JD, PharmD, DDS, DVM, PsyD, and similar, provided the degree is officially conferred. Proof typically takes the form of a diploma, degree certificate, final transcript, or an official letter from the registrar or awarding body that clearly states the applicant’s name and the specific doctorate earned. A government ID is not required unless it appears within the same image to confirm name matching on the document; its absence does not disqualify an otherwise valid proof. Candidates who have merely completed coursework or are still in candidacy status but have not yet had the degree conferred are not eligible until the credential is formally awarded.