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seamusTX wrote:They request a background check by DPS personnel in each county where you have lived or worked in the past five years. This seems to be the bottleneck, especially for Harris County.

In my experience; name changes, very common names and multiple addresses tend to slow things down more than where you are trying to get the information from. Unless you are asking for a manual check of the records, most places have their information in some type of on-line database, especially large cities. Having a name like "James Smith" will really slow it down because they have to default to DOB or SSN and some records may be missing that information...so it winds up being a manual check anyhow. It's suprising how many people switch their names around; swapping middle and last, using maternal AND paternal last names, combining maternal & paternal for new last name, etc...Throw in multiple marriages/multiple addresses and you get a lot of roadblocks to a fast check.