Validating and Submitting an LRP Application

For Intramural Employed inside NIH or Extramural Employed outside NIH LRP Applicants

After you have filled out all required information, you can validate and submit your application. To submit, it is required that you possess a PI/PD role (principal investigator/program director) with the organization specified during LRP initiation. Validating the application ensures it is complete and error-free. If errors are found, the forms where they were found are listed. Before submitting, you should also verify that your referees (and mentor if you are a mentored research scientist) and IBO have submitted their required documents.

IMPORTANT: Consult the following for LRP policy guidance, including assistance on each field on the LRP application forms:
Instruction Guide for Extramural LRP Applicants:

Instruction Guide for Intramural LRP Applicants:
Also see the LRP website:

Each time you save changes on a form, a validation occurs to make sure you completed required fields. For instance, if you leave required fields blank you might see something like the following upon saving the form.

However the VALIDATE APPLICATION button does a more thorough and detailed validation than the Save button validation.

Validating Your Application

After filling out all required fields, click the VALIDATE APPLICATION button on the left, which examines the application for completeness and errors. If errors are identified, you must fix them before you can submit your application.

You either see a screen listing errors and the form where they were found:

Or you see a screen that indicates no errors:

If you see errors, go to the screens where errors were found and correct them.

If you see a message that "All Validations Passed", you are ready to submit your application, which is detailed in the next section.

Submitting Your Application

The Submit Application button is on the Summary form but initially, it is disabled. To enable the Submit Application button, you must update submission status. Once you submit, you cannot make changes to an application.

IMPORTANT: Once you update the submission status, you can no longer go to forms and click Edit to make changes. Do not update submission status until you are sure the information you entered is correct. If form errors are found, such as duplicate files or incomplete fields, clicking Update Submission Status will prompt you to fix the errors before continuing.

To submit your application:

1. After validation errors are fixed, click the UPDATE SUBMISSION STATUS button.

2. Select Ready for Submission in the Select the new status dropdown, then either:

   • Click the or continue without adding a comment link, outlined in red above, or

   • Type a comment and click the Add comment button.

3. Click the Submit Application button on the Summary form.

4. Click Yes in the confirmation message that appears.

5. You can click the View Submission Status Details link, outlined in red above, to see the Application Information popup, which shows pertinent information relating to your application, including the FOA number under which it was submitted.

6. In the Application Information popup, shown below, you can click the Check for Status Updates button. When available, certain Agency tracking information becomes available. "Agency" refers to the federal agency who is processing your award.

7. Once agency information appears, you can click the Agency Tracking # in the above popup to view the Status Information screen for the application.

After submitting the application, you can monitor it via the Status Information screen in eRA Commons.