There are 62 countries currently open for applications and verifications. See the the full list of countries/regions open for verifications here.
Of these 62 countries, SLCP is currently waiving fees for the following 6 countries due to low Verifier/VB availability: Greece, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Sweden, Ukraine. "Fee waiver countries" are subject to change at any time due to changes in SLCP operations. SLCP will notify VBs at minimum two weeks in advance of any changes to this list.
Starting from August 23, 2024, SLCP approved VBs with APSCA Full or Provisional Member Firm status can also apply to 13 new countries: The 13 countries are: Albania, Australia, Austria, Croatia, Ghana, Ireland, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Switzerland, Tanzania, Uganda, United Arab Emirates. These 13 countries are only open for application: VBs cannot conduct verifications until SLCP formally opens these countries for verification. SLCP will notify VBs at minimum two weeks in advance of verification opening. Once open for verification activity, the Gateway information will also reflect this.
When submitting the application payment form, VBs are requested to select all the countries they would like to apply for at once. Please only apply for countries where your VB has prior social audit experience as a VB entity, applications with no listed prior experience will be denied.
Applications for countries/regions that are not yet open for verifications are also subject to an application fee.
Note: Why are we letting you pay the fee for countries/regions that are not yet open for verifications? We want to avoid charging you the application fee twice. This way, you can select all countries/regions at once, be charged only once, and you will be notified when the country/region is open for verifications. SLCP plans to open in new countries/regions again in early 2025. We will inform all VBs about these new countries in advance, as we have done now.
Before submitting any applications, VBs can check the full list of countries open for verifications here.