URM will contact you with a reminder approximately a month before you have to recertify. You will then be required to pay an application fee again and complete a new application form.
This is due to the questions being periodically updated and so may be different from the previous year.
It is a good idea to keep a copy of your answers when you submit, to enable you to cut and paste the relevant parts from your previous submission.
Our assessor was really helpful – he didn't just tell us what to do but also explained everything to us, which was a real benefit, very happy.
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We want to pass on our thanks to our URM assessor for helping us with the assessment. He made it really very straightforward for us during the remote sessions and during the follow ups to understand what we needed to do to remediate the issues and obtain the certification. He understood our setup and gave us relevant advice, it was a pleasure working with him.
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