Timeline

[GrandMasterKai]

I just found this forum and thought i'd sign up and share my time line with y'all.


CHL Class: 1/16
Applications submission: 1/22
CHL 100 submitted electronically:1/22
Document confirmation email: 1/22
Fingerprints confirmation email: 1/23



update: 4-17-16
aprox. 79 days and still no mail..

Licence:??????? TBD

[The Annoyed Man]

My first one took a long time. This is what my timeline looked like (quoted from a previous post of mine on 02/28/2008 at the time):

WOO HOO! I got my license in the mail today! The weird part is that I just checked online a minute ago, and again earlier this morning, and it still says that my application is being processed. But... I'm holding a license in my hand, mailed to me by "REGULATORY LICENSING SERVICE MSC 0245, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY." I'm going to take it that I've been approved.

Here's the sequence:

• 12/8 - I take CHL class.
• 12/10 - 2 days later, I send in all paperwork to DPS.
• 12/14 - 4 days later, USPS confirms DPS receipt of my paperwork.
• 1/23 - 39 days later, DPS sends me a letter asking for further information, because I was born outside of the U.S. of an American father and French mother. (My father had a job with an American construction company building an airfield in Casablanca, and I just happened to be born while they were living there. We moved back to the U.S. before I was 6 months old.)
• 1/28 - 44 days later, I receive their letter and telephone them. They say that they have not done anything to process my application at all because of the "missing" info. They also tell me that my 60-90 day waiting period begins when they receive the additional information.
• 1/29 - 45 days later, I fax to DPS the following items:
  1. a copy of my birth certificate, signed by U.S. Consul in Casablanca;
  2. a copy of my U.S. passport;
  3. a copy of my Texas driver's license;
  4. a copy of my SS card;
  5. a copy of their letter to me; and
  6. a fax cover sheet. On the fax cover sheet I asked that, since they had sat on my application for 39 days before even letting me know that they wanted additional information, could they please expedite processing it, now that their information was complete. I phoned them to follow up, and was told again that the 60-90 days begins with the receipt of the additional information.
• 2/23 - license received in mail.

Total elapsed time - 70 days. Maybe they read my fax cover sheet and took pity on my pathetic disarmed condition... ...naaaaah, probably not.

Anyway, time to go for a Wally Walk.

Be patient Padawan. You're the victim of exactly the same thing I was, i.e., the bad fortune to begin the process during a YUGE spike in applications. When I applied, Obama had just won his first election to POTUS, and people were a whole lot freaked out. You've applied in the wake of Obama's announced executive orders on gun control. People are a whole lot freaked out again.

[sweatmachine]

Some of us, me included, are a month ahead of you with no news. Good luck but I hope I get mine first!

[GrandMasterKai]

So I ended up calling the number this morning and the lady told me that the application is a 12 week process.

[sweatmachine]

So I ended up calling the number this morning and the lady told me that the application is a 12 week process.

Interesting, especially considering the confirmation email from DPS says "please allow 6 weeks."

I've not heard that one yet. I sort of hope she's right because I'm on week 11 now.

[TangoX-ray]

So I ended up calling the number this morning and the lady told me that the application is a 12 week process.

Doing that new math, 12 weeks times 5 work days per week equals 60 days.

[Darkjoker]

I know someone mail all his info on 01/25/2016 and got his plastic on 03/07/2016