SHORT CERT LIKELY — 1-YEAR
The checker reads your verdict. The Kit gets you through the exam: documentation packets for your condition, the two 45-day form clocks run as a calendar, the official medication form packet, waiting-period calendars, failure recovery, and the examiner phone script.
Federal source: Appendix A to Part 391, §H; FMCSA Medical Examiner's Handbook 2024, Neurology · Rules checked October 2026
Advisory criteria set the wait by the stroke's territory: cerebellar or brainstem stroke — 1 year; cortical or subcortical stroke — 5 years. Certification after the wait runs at 1-year intervals and requires neurology documentation that deficits do not interfere with safe operation (strength, coordination, vision fields, cognition).
Where the stroke was matters as much as when. A brainstem stroke and a cortical stroke are the same word and a four-year difference.
Certificate this points to: 1-YEAR certificates, while the standard's monitoring continues.
Bring hospital records naming the territory, neurology follow-up documenting residual function, and any therapy discharge summaries. Vision-field testing matters if the stroke touched visual pathways.
This question is decided by the federal text together with its published advisory criteria — clocks, thresholds, and specialist files. The verdict above follows the cited criteria; your documentation is what proves you meet them.
Only a certified medical examiner on the National Registry can certify you. FreightVerdict reads the published federal standards — it does not certify, diagnose, or treat, and nothing here is medical advice.
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