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Jumping Frog wrote:

JALLEN wrote:As a suggestion, don't file until you have your Texas DL. It just confuses and delays things if you do.

My Texas license was originally issued using my Ohio DL as identification. When I moved here, I simply filed a change of address and a change of driver license on the same form. It was still $25 to update the license.

Sure. The trouble was that I was unable to complete my application and get the CHL issued before I moved. DPS still had my original application with CA D/L, SSAN address etc and now I was sending in stuff with a Texas D/L, different address, etc. and it just clogged things up, including, apparently, being completely unable to follow progress online. The good news was that because the app was still in the system, even though more than a year old, I got credit for the fee, and did not have to pay a second time.

As a suggestion, don't file until you have your Texas DL. It just confuses and delays things if you do.

I moved here in June, got my DL issued on July 2, and had my CHL a few weeks ago. It would have been faster and smoother had I not filed more than a year ago from CA in anticipation of moving, then been unable to get here for the class until the move. I also could not check online and wasted some time not getting prints and BI done as soon as I could have. Still even with all that it was much faster, easier and cheaper than the permit in CA.