Student Loan Servicers

Student loan servicers are responsible for the servicing of any student loan to any borrower, and they include any nonbank covered person as defined under federal regulation.

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• Minnesota uses the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS). Persons applying for the student loan servicer license are required to use the NMLS. 
• There are two checklists on the NMLS for student loan servicers. There is a regular application checklist titled “student loan servicer license”, and a separate one titled “student loan services – federal contract” for those applicants who can document that they are servicing student loans pursuant to a contract awarded by the United States Secretary of Education.
• Please note that there is also a student loan servicer branch license for those persons who wish to service student loans at multiple places of business.
• Please read Minnesota Statutes Chapter 58B, which you can access before applying for a license.
• Total initial application fee is $1,000.

Renewal 

• Licenses issued under Minnesota Statutes Chapter 58B expire annually on December 31 and are renewable by January 1 of each year.  
• The renewal fee is $500.

Cancellation/Surrender

• Surrender of a license can be requested through the NMLS.
• The written notification will need to include a plan for withdrawal from student loan servicing as listed on the surrender checklist, including a timetable for the disposition of the student loans being serviced.

Exemptions

The following persons are exempt from the requirements of this chapter:

• a financial institution (defined as any of the following organized under the laws of this state, any other state, or the United States: a bank, bank and trust, trust company with banking powers, savings bank, savings association, or credit union)
• a person servicing student loans made with the person's own funds, if no more than three student loans are made in any 12-month period
• an agency, instrumentality, or political subdivision of this state that makes, services, or guarantees student loans
• a person acting in a fiduciary capacity, such as a trustee or receiver, as a result of a specific order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction
• the University of Minnesota