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Status changed online today (10/28/14), and I gather that means my permit is in the mail.

So that second person I spoke with was dead-bang-on-correct when she said it would take until Monday 10/26/14 to merge the file from my applications. Two days later, permit is in the mail.

So, assuming that means what everybody says it means, it's still just 19 days from the time DPS had everything.

By law they are supposed to do it within 60, so I'd say as far as state agencies are concerned, this one is really pretty efficient.

If memory serves, back in 1996, it came almost right on the 60th day & I also have a squeaky clean record (a physician with a controlled substance registration also through DPS both in 1996 and now). So, it seems they've gotten much faster at this.

Sorry, don't mean to be irritating to those still waiting. Think of it as "light at the end of the tunnel". I had issues with mine as well, going to the wrong arm of the website for an online submission (inasmuch as I had one back in 1996 and my fignerprints went to THAT application).

Called DPS again and got somebody much more helpful. Seems I committed a boo-boo going to the link for new users to file my application this time (I had a TX CHL circa 1996). I should have gone to the "existing users" link even though the world wide web was in its infancy back then and my application was handled only by snail mail, the permit lapsed long ago, i've been out of the state with CHLs in CO and UT in the interim, now have a different drivers license, etc., etc. At first she confused me when she said I had not one but two applications, and my fingerprints got sent to the wrong one (presumably the one from 1996 that already had fingerprints and was approved). In any case, she said to give it a week for them to merge the two applications...

Penalty Box: 1 week

Note to Joeldad:

My circumstances sound similar to yours... Perhaps same process?!

Submitted application online: 10/5/2014
CHL Class: 10/5/2014
Fingerprinted: 10/9/2014
All documents submitted online to DPS: 10/9/2014
Received Criminal Background check in the mail from DPS: 10/17/2014 (postmarked 10/15/2014)

and (drumroll please):

Received letter from DPS 10/20/2014 stating fingerprints had not been received and I needed to go get fingerprinted (what the heck??!!)

Called DPS CHL and they said they don't have my fingerprints... They said to ignore the letter and wait a week...

HELP!!!!!