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(1) Application. An application of an applicant seeking admission to this Bar from another state or territory shall be submitted in a format approved by the Committee and filed with the Director. The contents of the application shall be confidential except upon order of the court.

(2) Fees. The application shall be accompanied by

(1) a payment to the Clerk, D.C. Court of Appeals, in an amount and form approved by the Committee and specified by the Director, and

(2) payment to NCBE, or proof of payment to NCBE, in an amount and form specified on the application form.

(3) Admissions Requirements. An applicant may, upon proof of good moral character as it relates to the practice of law, be admitted to the Bar of this court without examination in this jurisdiction, provided that the applicant:

(A) Has been a member in good standing of a Bar of a court of general jurisdiction in any state or territory of the United States for a period of at least five years immediately preceding the filing of the application; or

(B)

(i) Has been awarded a J.D. or LL.B. degree by a law school which, at the time of the awarding of the degree, was approved by the ABA; or, if the applicant graduated from a law school not approved by the ABA, the applicant successfully completed at least 26 credit hours of study in a law school that at the time of such study was approved by the ABA, with all such 26 credit hours having been earned in courses of study, each of which is substantially concentrated on a single subject tested on the UBE;

(ii) Has been admitted to the practice of law in any state or territory of the United States upon the successful completion of a written bar examination and has received a scaled score of 133 or more on the MBE which the state or territory deems to have been taken as a part of such examination; and

(iii) Has taken and passed, in accordance with paragraph (c)(5), the MPRE.