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What is provisional status?

Provisional status means you have been allowed to begin limited participation while certain requirements, reviews, or conditions remain incomplete. 

This may happen when a participant appears suitable for the country-linked Nexus Consortium pathway but still needs to complete conflict disclosure, safe-meeting acknowledgement, public-language acknowledgement, information-handling acknowledgement, employer clarification, profile correction, country pathway review, role-specific review, or payment confirmation. 

Provisional status may also apply during early national pathway formation. A country may not yet have enough qualified individual Council subscribers to activate a full National Desk and Council secretariat structure. In many countries, full National Desk activation usually requires around 30 qualified individual Council subscribers, along with participation quality, sector diversity, record integrity, and operational need. Before that threshold, participants may be part of a forming Stewardship Pool rather than a fully activated Council environment. 

Provisional status may permit limited access to onboarding materials, general briefings, selected forms, early formation activities, or preparatory discussions. It should not imply Council appointment, leadership, institutional representation, controlled room access, board-pathway status, Nexus Universe selection, or authority to represent GRA. 

Provisional means “allowed to proceed under conditions.” It does not mean fully active or fully approved. 

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