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Plastic In hand after a 96 day wait.

E-mail the governor and your district rep. It seems to help.

Good luck to everyone.

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Dear Mr. Elliott:



Our records indicate that your license was mailed via UPS: Next Day Air and guaranteed delivery on October 8, 2008 at 10:30 A.M., tracking #1ZR347A50196900423. It is our hope that you will receive your license prior to noon tomorrow. If you have not received the license or if you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me personally at 512/424-5721.



Sincerely,





Jan Coffey, Manager

Concealed Handgun Licensing Bureau


The strange thing is that as of 4:00 AM this morning, Oct 8, my online status still shows PROCESSING APPLICATION.

Received a letter today from Stanley Clark, Director of DPS, stateing that they had been contacted by Governor Rick Perry's office in regards to my application. Mr. Clark stated that my delay was due to my first set of printd being rejected by the FBI. The second set was received by them on Aug. 28, 2008. Mr. Clark said DPS would make every attemp to expedite further processing of my application.

My problem is, on the 17th of Sept 2008, I received an e-mail from Christopher Pierce that said my background checks were complete and my license was going to the print shop.

As of today Oct. 7, 2008, 20 days later, my status is still PROCESSING APPLICATION.

I cannot see how that is "expediting" anything.

It is nice to know though, that the Governor's Office does take some action on our behalf.

waterpump1 wrote:well i called DPS today to check status the first tech i got told me still processing. I asked why they told me last week all that was needed was to mail license. Her response was they were wrong. Called back 20 min. later and got Jessica she says it was approved on 9/24/08. And license was being printed she said it should not be much longer. I hope!

I called DPS today, the third time this week, and talk to a fellow named Steve, who told me they were waiting on the license to come back from the print shop. He also said it takes about two weeks to finish the processing and them to the mail room. We shall see.

The background check is completed. We are on the final step of processing your application. Please allow a little longer.
Christopher Pierce
Texas Department of Public Safety

This is the e-mail I received on Sept. 17. When I asked exactly what that meant, this was his reply.

That message means we are on the last step of processing before the license is issued and mailed.
Christopher Pierce
Texas Department of Public Safety

That was two weeks ago.
I sure would like to know what that LAST STEP is. you can't get a straight answer from anyone .

I am totaly fedup with DPS. Two weeks ago they said my plastic was at the print shop.
Two days ago I spoke with a guy who said it was still processing.
Yesterday I spoke with Simone and she said it was in the print shop.

I don't think anyone has a clue of what is going on.

Today marks the 90th day and we are still in the PROCESSING APPLICATION mode.

Well, it's Friday afternoon and another week has gone by. It is hard to believe that it can take two plus weeks to print a small peice of paper.

While I'm waiting on the print shop, I ordered myself a crossbreed supertuck today.
They said to give them two weeks for delievery.
We will see which is here first!

Got a call yesterday afternoon from Simone and she said plastic was being printed. She also said it is takeing 10 or 15 days to print.

Day 85 and still PROCESSING APPLICATION. Last response from DPS---
From: JAS ELLIOTT
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:05 PM
To: CHLS
Subject:
The background investigation has completed. We are on the final step of processing your application. Please allow a little longer.
Christopher Pierce
Texas Department of Public Safety


Just what does that mean?


That message means we are on the last step of processing before the license is issued and mailed.
Christopher Pierce
Texas Department of Public Safety

I hope this LAST STEP does not take another 85 days.
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There seems to be a slow down in movement of July appllicants.
Can anyone tell me what is left after all background checks have been done?
What is the this; final part of proccessing?

The background check is completed. We are on the final step of processing your application. Please allow a little longer.
Christopher Pierce
Texas Department of Public Safety
From: JAS ELLIOTT
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 5:59 PM
To: CHLS
Subject: Re: finger prints


Simone,

I have been told ,several times, that all my background checks have been done and all DPS was waiting on was my fingerprints.

SO WHY ARE WE STILL WAITING ON "COMPLETTION OF THE BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION."
74 days have gone by. If they don't have my background by now, they never will.
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This is the response I get from DPS.

waterpump1 wrote:Day 61 after about two weeks and call to DPS I received reply to two emails one stated everything normal one waiting completion of BG checks. One atated fingerprints accepted waiting on BG checks Hopefully that means not much longer

That seems to be their standard response. I have lived and worked in the same county for 15 years, with a perfectly clean record, so
it should not take this long to check me out.

There hasn't been much activity in the July thread for awhile now.

Day 79 and still no word. Might have to make a couple of calls again.