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dalto wrote:I am not even in the system yet and I still check all the time.

I have locked myself out a couple of times from excessive login attempts

Well, well. No one has ever done that before.......much I almost didn't get my first status because I had locked myself out the night before.

It usually takes about 14 days for the first status to show up. Then it is pretty much a coin toss as to how fast the other steps go. Some people are through in two weeks. The rest of us had to wait longer. As the applicants from last year are very willing to point out, however, the average wait time then was 100 days. Now, very few get to that wait time.

Excaliber wrote: I know waiting isn't any fun at all, and some folks actually do check several times a day for changes. I was just trying to inject a little humor there. I apologize if my post came across as anything other than gentle kidding.

I was kidding, too. I knew that you were kidding when I replied and was simply needling you back. Please don't think anything else.

There is no way that I put smiles in my really serious posts. If you see a smile from me, you can probably expect me to be laughing at the screen.

Excaliber wrote:

dalto wrote:Because whenever I come here I feel the need to go check my status even though there is no possible way it can be close to ready yet. ;)

I just can't help it.

I wasn't even that excited about it before I came here.

Ah well....thanks for the support everyone.

Just because it wasn't issued as of 3 minutes ago doesn't mean that the status couldn't have changed since then........

Aw, c'mon Excaliber - that is just throwing gasoline on the fire.

I have to admit that I was guilty of checking my status way too often. I figured that I was squeaky clean enough that my turnaround would happen in 31 days....NOT! Those extra 20 days (to get me to the actual 51 day result) seemed to go on forever. I promise you that signing on twice a day to see my background check still pending didn't make it go faster. If I hadn't been on the site and seen other people (LOTS of other people) go to mailed or received status, I wouldn't have been as disappointed. In this matter, ignorance is truly bliss.