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And plastic is in hand! Arrived in today's mail.

47 days mailbox-to-mailbox

Oh I am a happy camper. We're leaving on a road trip from Dallas to New Mexico on August 6th so I assume it will be here by then (we own some acreage in Taos County, love to do some camping there by the mountains). NM is an open carry state, but it's always nice to have the reciprocal CHL so I can carry concealed in town instead of open.

I'll be carrying my Glock 22 because, well, no funds to buy a compact carry gun (yet). Nonetheless, I don't mind carrying something with immediate stopping power.

Updated today to Manufacturing Pending! Whoop!!

Am I the last June application?

I called DPS today and actually got a live human being on the phone after being on hold for only a couple minutes. She checked my record and said there were no notes indicating they needed additional info from me or that anything in particular was causing a delay. Told me to just remain patient. I've been in fingerprints under review/BG under review for 17 days and counting now. I guess the bureaucrat working on my application went on vacation or something...

adwmac6 wrote:

anomie wrote:I did not really expect that they would be working weekends (I saw the site go down for maintenance yesterday - and I'd expect IT guys to be working weekends - but I didn't really expect them to be processing stuff on the weekend)

I checked this morning just for the heck of it -

Background Check: Completed
Concealed Handgun License : Manufacturing Pending

It is odd that when I go to check my status on the laptop the website still shows under maintenance but when I check on my phone it lets me check on the status.

Either way.......after sitting in BG: under review since June 22nd, I just saw I am in the same boat as you....BG: complete, CHL manufacturing pending!!!!!!

So you were in BG under review for 22 days, right? I've been stuck in BG under review for 13 days now. I do have an arrest in my reported history, which I assume is the cause of the delay as most people on here are reporting that the BG check is getting done in a matter of days. Did you have any reported history that would explain why it took 22 days?

72 hours to get your background check done? Sheesh, I've been in "Fingerprints under review" and "BG under review" for 10 days now.

Mine is still showing both fingerprints under review and background check under review. It's only been 7 days since it updated to that, though.

I'm trying to remain patient. i do have an arrest from 2006 in my reported history so I'm assuming that may cause a delay, even though I included the disposition paperwork with my application materials.

Does anyone know what they do to conduct the background check? I was assuming they just ran your name and prints through a government database or something, and that it was a fairly quick process.

Checked my status about an hour ago and, to my surprise....updated!!

One question: Should I at all be concerned that fingerprints are still under review? I do have a misdemeanor arrest from 2006 that ended in deferred adjudication and a dismissal, and I submitted certified copies of the court disposition paperwork with my application to expedite things. Could that be it?

LOL now this thread is annoying me. People who mailed after me are already getting their plastic, and apparently DPS hasn't even bothered to open my envelope yet!

df1710tx wrote:My wife's processing was much faster than mine.

5/11/13 Completed Texas Online Application
5/11/13 Took CHL Class
5/27/13 Fingerprints Taken
6/12/13 Mailed Application Packet from post office
6/21/13 First DPS System status
6/21/13 Background check started
6/23/13 Background check completed
6/23/13 Manufacturing
6/25/13 Mailed (Postmarked 6/26/13)
6/28/13 Received, In Hand

I guess DPS has the process down now. Very proud of my CHL wife.

Love you baby,

D

Good lord. I mailed mine the same day (6/12) and my status still says "awaiting receipt of materials." I think your wife got hers in record time.

Yep. Mailed 6/12 and DPS signed for it 6/14. Online status still says "Concealed Handgun Licensing is waiting on the receipt of required materials."