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And a nice surprise in the mail today for both myself and wife:
So to recap we applied 5/2 and 5/7 and received them today which is 61 and 56 days respectively.

Finally, yes, a status update, for both me and wife (app and docs sent 5/2 and 5/7)
My suggestion is if you have been waiting too long (around 60days imo) then contact your state rep. It's amazing how responsive the DPS are when you have the state rep's backing. Just me contacting DPS myself meant canned responses, wait 8 weeks, rudeness etc etc and no email responses. Once a state rep was involved they were calling me. Someone with power needs to know the state of things at that office and the only way I know of to get that done is to contact your state rep.

So I received a call from DPS yesterday saying that my wife and I's application are currently processing and are on schedule to be completed and mailed by this friday. There is absolutely no change in my online status which is a bit fustrating so either DPS is just spinning me crap to get me to shutup or the online status is just not to be trusted sometimes. You would think that once your app is actually being processed the website would be updated and somewhat accurate, apparently not in my case, though I think there was someone else that said they received their license before anything was updated online.

We'll see what actually happens, but this is encouraging news.

So good news and bad news. Within the hour of talking to my representative, guess who calls? The DPS calls me, wow! After numerous emails and calls going ignored, they actually call little old me.

Bad news, same old canned response of we don't see you yet so wait a few more weeks and maybe you'll be in our system. Arrrrggggg! Really? This is simple stuff people. I filed electronically and gave you identifying information like my DL#. It must go somewhere electronically and can be queried by something like a DL#. Would take them 5 seconds to tell you this and if this is what actually happens this could also be displayed on the online status page so no people would need to be involved. Sounds like your info just goes into this digital black hole and occasionally it spits out someone's application to be worked on. Very frustrating that they cannot tell me this basic info especially when everything is digital.

Anyway replied back to my state rep and we'll go from there.

My wife and I have been waiting 45 and 50 days respectively with no updates. Called DPS and got the standard wait 60days response so I decided to contact my state representative. I wanted to voice my concern over the lack of communication with the whole process. At the very least they should be able to update the web status page and let you know that the documents were received and everything is in order even before they get to starting processing.

The representative replied back and said they'll look into the wait times and will also get specific information about our applications. I don't want to jump any lines I just want to know our documents are in order and everything's ready to go when they get to us. Anyway we'll see how it goes.

I don't think its a bad idea for everyone waiting to contact their state representatives to discuss the wait times and lack of communication. If everyone did it maybe "something" would be done.

Just wanted to put my stats in for future licensee's:

Wife:
CHL class : 04/27/2014
Finger Print: 05/02/2014
online CHL Application: 05/02/2014
online doc upload : 05/02/2014
Email confirmation : 05/02/2014

Me:
CHL class : 04/27/2014
Finger Print: 05/02/2014
online CHL Application: 05/02/2014
online doc upload : 05/07/2014
Email confirmation : 05/07/2014

Will update once statuses come in.