October 2011 Applications

[johnson0317]

Patience. The thing is, it will get to you as long as you meet all of the criteria. I know it seems forever...but it will show up in your mailbox. Mine did last May, and now it seems like the wait was nothing, and it also seems like carrying is completely second nature.

This is the second best part of your experience, and the best part is seeing that envelope. Past that point, you put on a very heavy robe of responsibility that literally changes your life. You know you can now carry most everywhere, and you know you have the capacity to end a life at almost any given time...really, that is not as much fun as waiting for your license, or getting it in the mail.

RJ

[GIJoe]

shoot, ya'll lucky, my BG has been under review since 10/22, still no word

[Rocstar]

We must be in the same batch, mine changed status today also... Hopefully it won't take much longer for the plastic to be manufactured and mailed.

Seems so. I got another update this morning, so you may want to check on your's as well.

[Rocstar]

Here is my current timeline:

October 8, 2011 - Took CHL class.
October 10, 2011 - Applied online, scheduled fingerprinting.
October 17, 2011 - Completed fingerprinting at 10:20 am.
October 17, 2011 - Mailed packet, with Delivery Confirmation, at 12:26 pm.

And the waiting begins...

October 19, 2011 - Packet successfully delivered (Delivery Confirmation via USPS.com)

First update on the TX DPS site today. I had checked around 5:30 am and it showed to still be awaiting my materials. On a whim, just checked again (~ 8:30 am) and got my first update. So now, I am awaiting my background check to be completed. YIPPEEE!

October 27, 2011 - Application 'Received' by DPS

Another update this morning. Happened sometime between 5:00 - 6:45 am. I am getting closer!

November 4, 2011 - Background Check Completed
November 4, 2011 - Manufacturing Pending

And yet another update this morning, Saturday. Checked about 6:15 am.

November 5, 2011 - Manufacturing

[vietvin]

Lucky guys!!! Mine has been "under review" since 10/26. Not to mention that my friend that mailed hers 5 days after I mailed mine said yesterday that hers was "mailed"!! Her bg check and manufacturing took two days!!!

Mine actually took a while, I called the state and inquired about it, what they had told me was since I had my fingerprints taken before, that actually delayed the process. When I was in high school I was going to join the Army and had my fingerprints taken then for a background check. It came up as a hit on the FBI and a technician had to dig in deeper and wait until that came back cleared.

[vietvin]

Here is my current timeline:

October 8, 2011 - Took CHL class.
October 10, 2011 - Applied online, scheduled fingerprinting.
October 17, 2011 - Completed fingerprinting at 10:20 am.
October 17, 2011 - Mailed packet, with Delivery Confirmation, at 12:26 pm.

And the waiting begins...

October 19, 2011 - Packet successfully delivered (Delivery Confirmation via USPS.com)

First update on the TX DPS site today. I had checked around 5:30 am and it showed to still be awaiting my materials. On a whim, just checked again (~ 8:30 am) and got my first update. So now, I am awaiting my background check to be completed. YIPPEEE!

October 27, 2011 - Application 'Received' by DPS

Another update this morning. Happened sometime between 5:00 - 6:45 am. I am getting closer!

November 4, 2011 - Background Check Completed
November 4, 2011 - Manufacturing Pending

And yet another update this morning, Saturday. Checked about 6:15 am.

November 5, 2011 - Manufacturing

Mine changed also, lol, it's the first thing I do when I wake up... Feel like a little kid on Christmas morning.

[GIJoe]

yeah, i have a TS Clearance and have had to renew it once for the Army and had one done for my civilian job in 2010. and when they do the review it just shows as an FBI Inquiry, which always comes back as negative, but the process takes longer every time i get one done. I wish they'd just check JPAS and see my clearance....make things easier and cheaper in the long run

[Rocstar]

Mine changed also, lol, it's the first thing I do when I wake up... Feel like a little kid on Christmas morning.

I know what you mean. I checked first thing this morning, full well knowing that I wouldn't see an update on a Sunday morning. But I checked all the same.

[TheMilkMan]

I feel you. It is a compulsion to check when I wake up, even on a Sunday. Stranger things have happened...

[strider67]

I feel you. It is a compulsion to check when I wake up, even on a Sunday. Stranger things have happened...

I checked mine on Sunday morning; after church; early, mid, and late afternoon; early and late evening; and at night before I went to bed! And still never got a dog-gone update on a Sunday!

Even with the wait, it will be here before you know it.

And welcome to all of the new members! Lots of good reading here to keep you occupied while you wait...

[Rocstar]

I only checked four times today. Primarily because we had an Internet outage at the office that kept me from checking any more.

[GIJoe]

Day 17 of BG under review....I think this is almost as bad as counting the days till deployments are over.....

[Rocstar]

Here is my current timeline:

October 8, 2011 - Took CHL class.
October 10, 2011 - Applied online, scheduled fingerprinting.
October 17, 2011 - Completed fingerprinting at 10:20 am.
October 17, 2011 - Mailed packet, with Delivery Confirmation, at 12:26 pm.

And the waiting begins...

October 19, 2011 - Packet successfully delivered (Delivery Confirmation via USPS.com)

First update on the TX DPS site today. I had checked around 5:30 am and it showed to still be awaiting my materials. On a whim, just checked again (~ 8:30 am) and got my first update. So now, I am awaiting my background check to be completed. YIPPEEE!

October 27, 2011 - Application 'Received' by DPS

Another update this morning. Happened sometime between 5:00 - 6:45 am. I am getting closer!

November 4, 2011 - Background Check Completed
November 4, 2011 - Manufacturing Pending

The update I have been waiting for...

November 8, 2011 - Mailed

[Craig8d8]

Congrats on your update!! I wish mine would change! I now know two people(both female) that took the class with me and mailed theirs after me and they both have chl's in hand!!

[Rocstar]

Congrats on your update!! I wish mine would change! I now know two people(both female) that took the class with me and mailed theirs after me and they both have chl's in hand!!

I can see how that would make you want to pound your head against the wall!