© The Electrochemical Society. Porous GaN based LEDs produced by corrosion etching techniques have demonstrated enhanced light extraction efficiencies in the past. However, these fabrication techniques require further post-growth processing steps, which increase the price of the final device. In this paper, we review the process we developed for the formation of fully porous GaN p-n junctions directly during growth, using a sequential chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process to produce the different layers that form the p-n junction.