How do I get through the maze of credential recognition?

You are in the middle of getting credentialed, and the process is a maze that seems designed to wear you down. Hitting wall after wall is exhausting, and it is not a sign you are doing it wrong. These systems are genuinely tangled, and the frustration you feel is the honest response of a capable person being made to prove themselves over and over. A maze beats you when you try to see the whole thing at once. You cannot. You can only find and take the next correct turn. Break the process into single steps, one form, one office, one requirement, and treat each as its own small task. The walls feel smaller when you stop measuring the whole distance and just clear the next one. This week, do one thing: identify the single next requirement and complete only that. Then find the next. People do get through this maze, not by being cleverer, but by refusing to quit and taking it one turn at a time. You are closer than it feels when you are standing in the middle of it.