I've got a TWIC card too. I got mine in Corpus last year and it took about 6 weeks(~45 days) to get it back, but you're correct, it was still faster than a CHL.steve_stock wrote:To put our situation into perspective, I recently got a TWIC card which is administered by the Department of Homeland Security and authorizes me to work in refineries located on a port. There are two offices in Houston to get this card and by my estimates the one I went through at Woodbridge processes 500-1000 people per day. You have to go through a more stringent background check than the CHL, give fingerprints, take photo etc. My total wait time from application to card was 2-3 weeks. This is also a much more advanced card with RFID tag containing all of my information, impossible to forge, etc. etc. The fee is $132 which is on par with what we pay for our CHL and even considering the gross incompetence of our federal government employees they still kick the crap out of our DPS office in processing time. Our state will probably process 80-90K CHL applications this year. TWIC will probably do 10X that this year.
This is just ridiculous.
Steve
-Cain