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Skipper5 wrote: Congrats Daltex...do me a favor and give us a timeline....
Packet Received by Austin date:
Date on-line changed to "Processing Application":
"License Issued-certificate active" date:
Your receipt in mail date:

Thanks....

Mine is such:
Return receipt says it was received 2/23/06
Got the PIN on 3/22/06, processing application on website
Website status changed to License issued... 5/4/06
License received... next week

Status changed today, day 70, to:

"Application Completed - license issued or certificate active"

I don't know how long it will take to mail but I'm leaving tomorrow morning and won't be back till Monday night. Maybe I'll have a present waiting for me in the mailbox.

YAY!!

I called the 800 number and after a while of being on hold I talked to a lady that worked there. She said my application was received on Feb 27, I have a return receipt that begs to differ (Feb 23), and that a should wait till next week as "it's almost done." I don't know what that means but she wasn't as polite as most people here have said. I hate to be a naysayer, but I didn't even get my first sentance out before she cut me off with "What's your social?" I remained polite and gave her some slack though, because I know that answering phones for something like that is a pretty harsh job.

my $0.02

Which phone number are you guys using? My buddy at work just called and he got a recording saying to write an email or snail-mail letter.

ETA: I've also lived in College Station, Midland, Austin, and Conroe within the last 5 years so I may be waiting for each of the local guys in those counties to get back to the Austin guys in order to finish my background check.

RedRaider wrote:Application Completed - license issued or certificate active

Website just showed this, whooooo hooooo, I'm at day 64. Guess I'll probably get in the mail on Monday.

Guess there's an open seat in the waiting room if anyone needs it.

So the Red Raider wins. Both of our applications were received on the same day. Bah, I wonder how much longer I'm going to have to wait.

On day 62 here. I emailed them yesterday first thing in the morning and no reply yet.

Diode wrote:... someone had told me people with common names take longer to weed out compared to peeps with unusual names.

I'm screwed then, I have a very common first name and a moderately common last name. In Houston alone, there are 12 of me, I mean 12 with the same first and last name combination.

Still processing. I'm wondering how much the 'local designee' has to do with the processing time. I checked the demographics online and Montgomery county (where I live) is 8th in the number of issued licenses (around 6000) and Harris county has issued around 25000 making it the number one county.

Of course this doesn't correlate with the story about husband and wife sending them on the same day and receiving the licenses 30 days apart.

Who knows?

Today I am sitting at 56 days since it was received on the 23rd of Feb. To answer your question RedRaider (sssss I'm and Aggie ) I usually check once I get to work in the morning, then once again right after lunch, then finally when I get home just after 5.

Hmmm, just now thinking about it, I guess the first thing in the morning and the after the work day checks are redundant as they most definitely won't work between 5 pm and 8 am. Oh well, won't change my schedule anyways hah.

Impatiently waiting
Skerbo

I finally registered here so I figured I'd chime in on this thread. I submitted my paperwork and it was received on Feb 23rd. That put's today at 50 days. I got my PIN on the 27th day. The website currently says 'Processing Application". Hopefully mine will come quick like some others but I'm not holding my breath.