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I finally got mine in the mail today.

MyNameIsPaul wrote:
I'm hoping that the calls and emails I made sped the process up,

It did for me. I emailed DPS and got a call that day then follwed up a few days later and they said they got it taken care of. I am waiting for it in the mail but the status says "complete".

Class on 1/24, PIN on 2/23, finally "Application Completed" on 6/24. Like someone else said, maybe I should send in the paperwork for the renewal.

Well I think I finally made some progress. I e-mailed and called and some one there called to see what was holding up the BG check. It seems that is all it took and they just called me back saying that it is taken care of and being sent to the printer. I guess 19 weeks from sending the app in is just about the length of time it takes them to start thinking they should get to work.

Has anybody ever got any help or any expediency by contacting them. I have not called or e-mailed them but I am starting to get fed up, it has been roughly 15 weeks or more since I received my PIN (which was almost 4 weeks after I mailed the packet), I am at a total of almost 150 days since I mailed the packet.

It is just getting a little frustrating. Having grown in MD I got used to a 2 week waiting period to buy a handgun. Now that I am in TX it is hard to figure out why I can buy a gun and get approved in 10 minutes but have to wait over 100 days now to get a CHL. I took the class the last week of January and got my PIN a few weeks later......."Processing"......