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Received my CHL on Wednesday 6/14. 93 days from app originally being signed for in Austin, and 43 days from TR-100 being signed for after returning it to me because I forgot to sign the thing.

I cannot carry at work, because I work on a prison facility, but I have been packing while running some errands of the evenings. I have to keep reminding myself that everyone does not know that I'm armed.

Congratulations, AJKAHR! Welcome to our little group of campers. You know, we're camped out by the mailbox waiting for our CHL to arrive.

Congratulations, 06nop! I'm finally in the same boat you are. Yesterday, day 91 since DPS got my app originally, the status changed to App. Completed. I hope we both have that little piece of plastic in our hands soon!

Skipper5 wrote:

Whats the latest barres???? Any news????

//John

As I posted in the new "Waiting Room" section, there is nothing new to report.

Congrats Jgue and Bones! I wish I could say things were going so well, myself. I finally got a letter from the DPS with my PIN over the weekend. 75 days after they got my application originally, 25 days after they got my signed TR-100 back, and 33 days after they e-mailed this PIN to me! So things may be moving faster for some, but not for all of us.

Nothing new to report, unfortunately. 71 days since app first received in Austin, and 21 days since they got the signed TR-100 back. Looks like I've got about 39 days or so to go.

What exactly would be considered "timely issued" for a situation like this. They obviously could have done everything but issue the license without the signatre on the TR-100. It had the instructor's signature and all the pertinent information on it correctly. I understand bad fingerprints delaying things, because, as I understand it, the FBI won't begin a background check without a good set of prints, but they could literally have had my CHL ready waiting on the return of my TR-100 with no additional waiting time. At this time, and considering the lack of any reply by Waldene Leach as to how much time my mistake would add to the process, I am assuming that, as soon as the folks at the DPS found my signature missing, they stopped doing anything with my app. Once they got the TR-100 back, my app went right to the back of the queue. Start the 60 day "minimum" processing time that the DPS has quoted some here all over again.

Finally got my reply from Ms. Leach this morning. She confirmed that they need nothing more from me, but also said that my app is just processing, which tells me that they probably stopped doing anything as soon as they noticed the missing signature. So I'm stuck here in the waiting room for a while, it looks like. She didn't even try to answer my question as to how much time my mistake would add to the process.

Venus, welcome to the forum and the waiting room. Yes, it does seem that the ladies get processed quicker than the men, but as GrannyGlock pointed out, there are exceptions to that rule.

Congratulations Diode and Skipper! Unfortunately, this just makes me even madder at myself for not signing the Blasted TR-100. The DPS got my application originally on March 13, so I probably could have had my CHL (at least on the way) by now.

Please excuse me for a moment while I go kick myself, again.

Since the DPS got my returned TR-100 two weeks ago on Tuesday and the app status tracker online still showed application incomplete, I e-mailed Waldene Leach (waldene.leach@txdps.state.tx.us) at the DPS CHL office yesterday to see if there was some other issue that needed to be resolved, or if they simply had not yet updated the status online. I also asked how much time the unsigned TR-100 would likely add to the processing time.

I have not yet received a reply, but this morning my status showed "processing application." While some of you are getting tired of seeing this, I am just happy to not see "Application incomplete - missing information - detailed letter sent." At least now it looks like something is being done. I guess the squeeky wheel does get the grease, as they say. Today I am at 66 days since DPS originally received my app and 16 days since they received the signed TR-100 back. I'm hoping for a (slightly early? :praying smiley:) Father's Day present from the DPS.

DPS originally received my app 63 days ago. Because I forgot to sign my TR-100, they sent it back to me to be signed and returned. The received the signed TR-100 back 13 days ago. The application tracking site still shows my app as "Application incomplete - information missing. Detailed letter sent."

How long should I wait before e-mailing to ask what's going on? Or should I call? Or am I just too d@$# impatient? (I hate waiting!)

Skipper5 wrote:
Wife got PIN on 27Apr06....Wife re-do on prints on 09May06...should arrive AUS today...
Guess 24May for me (think we're day 49 today) + 3/5 extra working days for wife....Whooooooo knows....tea and meditation work...lol
Let's keep checking status....

General concensus seems to be that, if you get something kicked back from Austin to be redone (or signed, as in my case), it will take about a month-ish from the time Austin gets everything back in. I would think fingerprints needing to be redone might take longer, because they can't do the background checks without them, but I could well be wrong.

Good luck with the waiting. I'm miserable at it. I would say that I keep hearing "I hate waiting" in my head, but that would probably get me a psych disqualification for my CHL!

jgue wrote:Hello everyone. Im new to this site but im already hooked.
my application was sent in on 12/15/05. after about 90 days
I called and they told me that my app had been sent to the wrong
dept. they had not done anything about it untill I called.
around the end of April I was notified that during the background
check,a short hospital stay I had showed up,so now I had to get some
paperwork that they sent me,filled out by my D.R.(phsyciatrist)
(I was diagnosed with depression two years ago).
My doc gave me the ok so I got everything mailed back to Austin.

To day I called and they told me that the medical board has my
app. but they only reveiw cases every other week.
and this aint the week, so it looks like it will be at least two more
weeks before I know anything.It lookes like it will be close to six
months before everythings wrapped up,its been a long wait

Man, now I feel guilty about complaining about the few minor issues I've had. Welcome to the waiting room, Jgue. You've found a great group of friends.

barres wrote:AARRGGHH!!!!!!

I sent my TR-100 back to the DPS on Thursday, April 27 (Ihad originally forgotten to sign the dang thing). Sent it Certified Mail with Return Receipt requested. The nice postal worker informed me that the letter should arrive in Austin on Saturday, April 29. I figure the DPS won't receive anything on Saturday, so it should get there on Monday.

I know it is only Tuesday, but USPS track and confirm shows nothing, other than the letter was accepted by the local Post Office last Thursday. It's frustrating when the application process is delayed by my own stupidity, but now it's being delayed by something completely out of my control. I don't like feeling helpless (which is one of the reasons I applied for my CHL to begin with), and I hate waiting.

Okay, thank you for letting me gripe. Back to whatever you were doing before...

I know I sounded impatient (I am), but I was leaving the next morning on business, and didn't know if I would be able to check the tracking information until today. As it turns out, the DPS signed for my returned TR-100 on Tuesday morning, but USPS didn't update their information until that evening. So that puts me at 56 days since DPS got my app packet originally, and 5 days since they got it back with the correction. The application tracking system on the DPS website still says "Application Incomplete..."

I hate waiting almost as much as I hate waiting longer because of my own stupidity!

AARRGGHH!!!!!!

I sent my TR-100 back to the DPS on Thursday, April 27 (Ihad originally forgotten to sign the dang thing). Sent it Certified Mail with Return Receipt requested. The nice postal worker informed me that the letter should arrive in Austin on Saturday, April 29. I figure the DPS won't receive anything on Saturday, so it should get there on Monday.

I know it is only Tuesday, but USPS track and confirm shows nothing, other than the letter was accepted by the local Post Office last Thursday. It's frustrating when the application process is delayed by my own stupidity, but now it's being delayed by something completely out of my control. I don't like feeling helpless (which is one of the reasons I applied for my CHL to begin with), and I hate waiting.

Okay, thank you for letting me gripe. Back to whatever you were doing before...

I owe the DPS an apology. It was my fault that my app got kicked back as incomplete. Since I had everything else ready to go, when I got my TR-100 I overlooked the signature line on it. Dangit, I hate it when I do something stupid.

For those that had their app kicked back, how long did it take to get your license once you got the corrected app back to the DPS? The concensus is that the 60 days starts over, but did it really take that long for any of you?