"Waiting Room"

[TeachMan2016]

ok...

Just got off the phone with the RSD folks. My background check is not completed, but all my documents are in. I should expect something within the next 2-3 years...

Day 77.

I have had many things I have had to wait for and it be this long if not longer; getting a new car, moving out of the dorms, graduating from school, etc. But there is just something different that makes this wait much longer and more irritating.

[Zombieguy85]

76 days still no change no plastic

[TeachMan2016]

76 days still no change no plastic

87 days from application

54 days from "all-in" date.

In the words of the old lady from Titanic: "all we could do was wait to die, wait to live, wait for an absolution that would never come."

[Flightmare]

ok...

Just got off the phone with the RSD folks. My background check is not completed, but all my documents are in. I should expect something within the next 2-3 years...

Day 77.

I have had many things I have had to wait for and it be this long if not longer; getting a new car, moving out of the dorms, graduating from school, etc. But there is just something different that makes this wait much longer and more irritating.

The difference there is knowing when that final date is.
You know the timeline when you're getting a new car.
You know the timeline when you're moving out of the dorms.
You know the timeline when you're graduating from school.

In the case of submitting your application for your LTC, you do not necessarily know the timeline. That seems to be the primary source of the frustration.

[TeachMan2016]

ok...

Just got off the phone with the RSD folks. My background check is not completed, but all my documents are in. I should expect something within the next 2-3 years...

Day 77.

I have had many things I have had to wait for and it be this long if not longer; getting a new car, moving out of the dorms, graduating from school, etc. But there is just something different that makes this wait much longer and more irritating.

The difference there is knowing when that final date is.
You know the timeline when you're getting a new car.
You know the timeline when you're moving out of the dorms.
You know the timeline when you're graduating from school.

In the case of submitting your application for your LTC, you do not necessarily know the timeline. That seems to be the primary source of the frustration.

[TexBman]

ok...

Just got off the phone with the RSD folks. My background check is not completed, but all my documents are in. I should expect something within the next 2-3 years...

Day 77.

I have had many things I have had to wait for and it be this long if not longer; getting a new car, moving out of the dorms, graduating from school, etc. But there is just something different that makes this wait much longer and more irritating.

It's expectations. If you are like me, you know several people that got theirs within 3 weeks of taking the class. But this was back before the recent surge so I am thinking it's going to probably take close to the 6 weeks that is printed on the official email. Then 6 weeks go by so you spend an hour waiting on hold to get a generic message. 8 weeks go by and same thing. 10 weeks go by and you see happy posts from people that applied a month after you. 12 weeks go by and still nothing.

I least have phone confirmation that I am approved by can't feel easy till I see the website change. If they could just make a better Website experience like what has been mentioned several times, the frustration would be less.

And I have a clean record and an uncommon name.

[meyerch5]

ok...

Just got off the phone with the RSD folks. My background check is not completed, but all my documents are in. I should expect something within the next 2-3 years...

Day 77.

I have had many things I have had to wait for and it be this long if not longer; getting a new car, moving out of the dorms, graduating from school, etc. But there is just something different that makes this wait much longer and more irritating.

It's expectations. If you are like me, you know several people that got theirs within 3 weeks of taking the class. But this was back before the recent surge so I am thinking it's going to probably take close to the 6 weeks that is printed on the official email. Then 6 weeks go by so you spend an hour waiting on hold to get a generic message. 8 weeks go by and same thing. 10 weeks go by and you see happy posts from people that applied a month after you. 12 weeks go by and still nothing.

I least have phone confirmation that I am approved by can't feel easy till I see the website change. If they could just make a better Website experience like what has been mentioned several times, the frustration would be less.

And I have a clean record and an uncommon name.

I had a phone confirmation too... And today a phone disconfirmation.

Its impossible to reconcile the expectation with the reality. The email that you receive from RSD says six weeks. The statute says 60 days. On the phone they give you a different story every time.

frustrating.

[TeachMan2016]

ok...

Just got off the phone with the RSD folks. My background check is not completed, but all my documents are in. I should expect something within the next 2-3 years...

Day 77.

I have had many things I have had to wait for and it be this long if not longer; getting a new car, moving out of the dorms, graduating from school, etc. But there is just something different that makes this wait much longer and more irritating.

It's expectations. If you are like me, you know several people that got theirs within 3 weeks of taking the class. But this was back before the recent surge so I am thinking it's going to probably take close to the 6 weeks that is printed on the official email. Then 6 weeks go by so you spend an hour waiting on hold to get a generic message. 8 weeks go by and same thing. 10 weeks go by and you see happy posts from people that applied a month after you. 12 weeks go by and still nothing.

I least have phone confirmation that I am approved by can't feel easy till I see the website change. If they could just make a better Website experience like what has been mentioned several times, the frustration would be less.

And I have a clean record and an uncommon name.

I think it's the people who were much later than us and got it. It's the not knowing what is happening or if anything is happening. It's the inconsistent answers when or IF you get any answers. I have a common name (one of those saints in the bible), and I expected a longer wait, but for people who have those extremely uncommon names and still have to wait soooo long it's just as unfair. The worst part is truly not knowing what is going on.

[mouse52]

Yes it would seem in this "modern" age the state should have a web site or program to allow us to see a real time acessment of the situation not just wondering and worrying over whether it was done right approved, disapproved or just forgotten, but I realize that would be 1-3 more people on the state payroll to do nothing but update info just aggrevating. Mike

[meyerch5]

You don't need more people to update the info and push it to an automated system to update on status. You just need employees to log the activity that has taken place on the app and have a system that pushes it out to the population. I think Florida does this with concealed carry permits.

... and dominos does it with pizzas.

Not that hard.

[TexBman]

ok...

Just got off the phone with the RSD folks. My background check is not completed, but all my documents are in. I should expect something within the next 2-3 years...

Day 77.

I have had many things I have had to wait for and it be this long if not longer; getting a new car, moving out of the dorms, graduating from school, etc. But there is just something different that makes this wait much longer and more irritating.

It's expectations. If you are like me, you know several people that got theirs within 3 weeks of taking the class. But this was back before the recent surge so I am thinking it's going to probably take close to the 6 weeks that is printed on the official email. Then 6 weeks go by so you spend an hour waiting on hold to get a generic message. 8 weeks go by and same thing. 10 weeks go by and you see happy posts from people that applied a month after you. 12 weeks go by and still nothing.

I least have phone confirmation that I am approved by can't feel easy till I see the website change. If they could just make a better Website experience like what has been mentioned several times, the frustration would be less.

And I have a clean record and an uncommon name.

I had a phone confirmation too... And today a phone disconfirmation.

Its impossible to reconcile the expectation with the reality. The email that you receive from RSD says six weeks. The statute says 60 days. On the phone they give you a different story every time.

frustrating.

Really, they changed their story on your confirmation? I was told yesterday that mine went to printing on 4/1. Now you have me thinking I should call again because the website still has not changed.

But then again, that doesn't accomplish anything.

[Zombieguy85]

You don't need more people to update the info and push it to an automated system to update on status. You just need employees to log the activity that has taken place on the app and have a system that pushes it out to the population. I think Florida does this with concealed carry permits.

... and dominos does it with pizzas.

Not that hard.

[Kenneth77]

Since the DPS is involved why cant they just do like when you get a DL take the test and go their nearest office and they can do your background check while you wait , i highly doubt that anything that would be found on there in 5 days or 30 mins is really going to make difference at all ......If your going to kill someone or something i don't really think you would go to all the trouble of getting a LTC they would do what they are going to do .All this really makes the DPS look like a bunch of idiots that could tie there own shoes .

[ifpo238]

If your going to kill someone or something i don't really think you would go to all the trouble of getting a LTC...

Constitutional carry.

[TeachMan2016]

Since the DPS is involved why cant they just do like when you get a DL take the test and go their nearest office and they can do your background check while you wait , i highly doubt that anything that would be found on there in 5 days or 30 mins is really going to make difference at all ......If your going to kill someone or something i don't really think you would go to all the trouble of getting a LTC they would do what they are going to do .All this really makes the DPS look like a bunch of idiots that could tie there own shoes .