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UPDATED again today...

Online Application: 11/26/12
CHL CLass/Fingerprints: 11/30/12
Submitted Documents: 12/03/12
Received by DPS: 12/05/12 (sent return receipt required)
Background Review: 12/31/12 (Under Review)
Manufacturing Pending: 01/13/13
Manufacturing: 01/15/13
Mailed: 01/16/13

26 days to get a status change from "waiting to receive documents" to "under review".
14 days in background review.
2 days pending manufacturing
1 day in mfg

An observation for all that are still watching for updates after mailing docs or while background check is under review: based on my experience so far it looks like they update those two categories in batch mode once weekly on the weekend. And then once background check is finished they update nightly real time.
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UPDATED again today...

Online Application: 11/26/12
CHL CLass/Fingerprints: 11/30/12
Submitted Documents: 12/03/12
Received by DPS: 12/05/12 (sent return receipt required)
Background Review: 12/31/12 (Under Review)
Manufacturing Pending: 01/13/13
Manufacturing: 01/15/13

26 days to get a status change from "waiting to receive documents" to "under review".
14 days in background review.
2 days pending manufacturing
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Here is my UPDATED timeline so far...

Online Application: 11/26/12
CHL CLass/Fingerprints: 11/30/12
Submitted Documents: 12/03/12
Received by DPS: 12/05/12 (sent return receipt required)
Background Review: 12/31/12 (Under Review)
Manufacturing Pending: 01/13/13

26 days to get a status change from "waiting to receive documents" to "under review".
14 days in background review.

aikimaster11 wrote:11/10 Online App
11/14 Fingerprints
11/17 Class
11/18 Mailed Paperwork
12/15 Paperwork Received by Data Entry
12/15 Background Check in Progress
12/29 Manufacturing
01/02 CHL mailed
01/10 Received

License just arrived in the mail today.

Congrats #aikimaster.
Good luck and remember to practice Situational Awareness always! (And practice with your sidearm)

Wodathunkit wrote:Plastic in the mail!

Hey #whodathunkit, now you are NOT gonna be waiting by the mailbox every day? Right? Congrats!
PS... Somehow I don't think a guy from Alvin can dance like that avitar that you included in your last post. (-:

When checking status this morning I received a web page that says "This Texas.gov service is temporarily down for maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please check back soon."
Is anyone else seeing this page?

Here is my timeline so far...

Online Application: 11/26/12
CHL CLass/Fingerprints: 11/30/12
Submitted Documents: 12/03/12
Received by DPS: 12/05/12 (sent return receipt required)
Background Review: 12/31/12 (Under Review)

26 days to get a status change from "waiting to receive documents" to "under review".
Expecting review to take as long or longer.
CHL class trainer said at the time (Nov 30) that the average was up to 8-10 weeks at that point for clean applications.
TX DPS will probably process well over 200,000 applications in 2012. (180k last year)
My bet is that will increase to 250k+ for 2013.
Which makes me feel good that the trained population is catching up on the bad guys!