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nightmare69 wrote:10 bucks says Im the last of the February submitter that receives plastic. 51days and not in the system and no update.

I don't know, nightmare. I'm going to give you a good run for your money. I mailed all of my materials on 2/6. So, I'm at day 76 now. They have acknowledged receipt, but nothing else. I tried calling last week and was given the stock answer of how it takes 60 days to process an application. It was totally lost on her that it had already been 70.

My only consolation is knowing that it simply can't be much longer.

As an update: It has now been 70 days since I mailed in all of the required materials (~39 days in BG).

I called yesterday, just to make sure they weren't waiting on anything and was told that they were not. Rather, she just repeated the party line - 4 to 6 weeks to enter it into the system and 60 days from that point. I'm trying to be patient, but this seems ridiculous.

arawli wrote:Getting a bit frustrating now. I mailed my packet over a month ago and still no update that they've even received it yet. Sent TXDPS an email late last week and got a quick response (be it a form letter response) stating that I should expect nothing until 4 weeks. But I see so many of you who got your first status update around 3 weeks or less. I just want to know that the ball is in their court, that my paperwork really is at least in a giant stack somewhere and not blowing across the Texas prairie like a tumbleweed.

They haven't lost it. It's just on a slow desk. I (and others on here) suffer from the same fate. I mailed mine in on 2/6, but it was not acknowledged online until 3/9. There are people that submitted since me that are already receiving their plastic. The only sense I can make of it is that we were lucky enough to have been assigned to someone that spends more time on online forums than doing their job (and I guess I can't really say much about that...). Nonetheless, rest assured it is now spring break, so they probably aren't even in the office this week, anyway.

2/6 - mailed
3/9 - finally acknowledging receipt on the status page

Now I just have to wait out the fingerprint and background check review...

1/29 - Submitted online application
2/4 - Fingerprinted
2/5 - finished CHL class
2/6 - mailed packet of all materials to DPS
2/21 - e-mailed DPS to make sure they received materials (never heard back)
2/27 - called DPS, was told fingerprints received but that it takes 4-5 weeks to get to things you mail in
2/28 - found this forum
3/5 - Website still shows waiting on materials

Very frustrating. At least I know I'm not alone (although it seems like everyone else from early Feb. is starting to get updates...) Maybe tomorrow...