Step 15

Get your tracking number  from grants.gov.   After grants.gov receives your application it sends an acknowledgement, tracking number, and other messages to the Grants Management Office, which sends these messages along to you. Click here to see the generic text of these messages.

Get a receipt from the eRA Commons.  After it receives your application, grants.gov transmits it to NIH; NIH assembles the separate files it receives from grants.gov into a single document and e-mails you a receipt that directs you to the eRA Commons to check the status of your application. You must track the rest of your submission on NIH eRA Commons.

Inspect any Warning on the eRA Commons.  Open the link shown on your receipt to learn the status of your application.  Often the status message on the Commons will contain a series of Warnings.   Warnings do not halt NIH’s review of your application and are usually trivial; for example, the warning may say that the rank you listed in your application does not correspond to rank stored in the Commons data base.  This typically happens if you are promeoted, but do not update your personal profile in the eRA Commons.