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sgtallen28 wrote:yo Karma, do you live in harris county? ive lived here my entire life and have a clean record, hopefully mine gets processed as fast as yours. DPS got mine on 14 Nov

Affirmative, dude. Harris county seems to move pretty briskly on background checks. I was also fortunate not to have any issues with fingerprints, photgraphs or missing pages/signatures. I suspect that your plastic will arrive in late December, or early January.

I remember compulsively checking my application about eight times prior to dropping it off at the post office just to be sure that I hadn't forgotten to include/sign anything!

atxbandit wrote:Hey badkarma,
Looks like you didn't have to wait too long. Eight days short of two months is pretty good. I just hope I get mine before Christmas.


Took class 10/13
Mailed app 10/15
Check cleared 10/22
Recieved PIN 11/13

I was lucky, dude. From reviewing the current posts to this board, the CHL staff seems to operate a little slower in the fall/winter as opposed to the summer...I'd have thought it would've been the other way 'round, but I guess it ain't. Actually, if you only count the period afterwhich DPS received my completed application, they only took 34 days to get me squared-away. That sort of timing wasn't unheard of during the summer application cycle.

Just hang in there, your plastic will arrive before you know it. Once you've got the "processing application" status message, it should only be a couple two or three more weeks until satisfaction!

seamusTX wrote:

atxbandit wrote:Does anyone know how often the DPS website is updated?

No one in this forum seems to know. Some people have reported that the site was updated over the weekend, which seems odd if DPS personnel do it. Some have received their plastic while the site still said 'Processing application."

- Jim

They seem to time updates to the website whenever Jupiter is in the third house or whenever Mars goes into retrograde, or whenever the North Star resides in the southern sky...or is it the western sky? I can never remember exactly...just forget I said anything.