Nebraska Self-Exclusion Program

Terms you can choose

1 year, 3 years, 5 years, or lifetime (lifetime requires having already been on the list at least 6 months). A person may petition to extend but never to shorten a chosen term; a petition filed before term expiry is automatically denied. Lifetime selections can never be petitioned for removal.

When it ends

A fixed term continues until a removal is granted; a lifetime term has no published way to lift it.

A fixed term. Your name does not come off when your term ends. Removal takes a petition plus an in-person session with a Commission-designated agent, who signs it, and a petition filed before your term expires is denied automatically. You can extend a term and never shorten one.

A lifetime term. Lifetime is one of the four terms offered, available only after at least 6 months on the list. Title 296 states a lifetime selection can never be petitioned for removal, and no other route off the list is published for it.

How to enroll

Enroll through NVSEP.

The Commission's Responsible Gaming page names NVSEP as the Nebraska VSE Application, and NVSEP's Nebraska page says it handles exclusion from every licensed casino and pari-mutuel facility through a collaboration with the Commission. NVSEP fills in the application with you online, checks your ID and sends it to the Commission, and its portal lists Nebraska among the states it registers directly, with no notary meeting. Press Self-Exclude Now on the page and sign in with the code NVSEP emails you. Identity checks start with a live face scan — it asks you to turn your head to each side — before it asks your name, and NVSEP says the pictures you submit are stored on your self-exclusion record. NVSEP says most self-exclusions take effect within 24 to 72 hours after submission, and that it sends you a confirmation once the submission is processed. You can still apply in person with a Commission-designated agent instead; those steps are below.

1. Enroll through NVSEP. The Commission's page names it as the Nebraska VSE Application, and NVSEP's Nebraska page covers every licensed casino and pari-mutuel facility in the state. You fill in the application online, upload your ID, and NVSEP sends it to the Commission. We don't fill in or submit it. To apply in person instead, follow the steps below.
2. There is no form to download. In person, a Commission-designated agent goes through the application with you and signs it as accepted if it is complete.
3. Give your name, home address, email, phone number, date of birth and Social Security number. A passport-style photo is required and is taken as part of the intake.
4. The designated agent reviews the application with you and signs it. Title 296 never mentions a notary, but it lists an affidavit among the application's contents without saying who takes it, so ask the agent whether anything beyond their sign-off is needed.
5. Submit it in person at one of the four licensed racetrack gaming facilities — Harrah's Columbus, WarHorse Lincoln, WarHorse Omaha, Grand Island Casino Resort — or at another location the Commission designates. No source says whether you need an appointment or what hours an agent keeps, so ask the facility before you drive out. The Commission's office at 3401 Village Drive, Suite 100, Lincoln, NE 68516 is a contact address; no source says an application may be sent there.
6. After the intake, the agent has 48 hours to forward your signed application to the Commission. The Commission reviews it and, if it meets every requirement, approves it and adds your name to the list; an incomplete application can be denied. Casinos that track the list in their own systems update them at least every 72 hours. No deadline is published for the Commission's review and no approval notice is described, so keep any paperwork the agent gives you and write down the date.
7. Choose 1, 3 or 5 years, or lifetime — lifetime is available only after you have already been on the list at least 6 months. Your name does not come off when the term ends. Removal takes a petition plus an in-person session with a designated agent, who signs the petition, and a petition filed before the term expires is denied automatically. You may ask to extend a term. You may never ask to shorten one, and a lifetime selection cannot be petitioned for removal.

Before you count on it. Nebraska's tribal casinos are not on this list: the statute's 'licensed racetrack enclosure' definition is tied to state-licensed commercial racetrack premises, and no compact language extending the list to tribal land was found. Ohiya Casino's page names only helpline numbers. Rosebud Casino, with a Valentine, Nebraska postal address, sits in Todd County, South Dakota, so look for it under South Dakota. Sports wagering is not separately named in the statute or in Title 296's self-exclusion chapter — coverage there follows from the sportsbook sharing the licensed premises. Online and mobile sports wagering are not currently authorized in Nebraska. No self-exclusion mechanism was found for the Nebraska Lottery, for fantasy sports, or for charitable gaming, which the Department of Revenue licenses separately. Whether an out-of-state visitor can enroll is not addressed anywhere the Commission has published. The Commission's Responsible Gaming page names NVSEP as its online application. What NVSEP's screens ask for sits behind its email sign-in. The Lincoln office address is a contact address, not an application destination. The agent's intake is not placement: the agent forwards your signed application within 48 hours, and your name goes on the list only when the Commission approves it. No deadline for that review and no approval notice are published, so nothing tells you when the list has been updated. Title 296 lists an affidavit among the application's contents without saying who takes it, so whether a notary is involved is not established. Coming off the list is not automatic at term end: it takes a petition and an in-person session with a designated agent, a petition filed early is denied automatically, and a lifetime selection cannot be petitioned for removal.