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Posted: 5/4/2017 11:05:38 AM EDT

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And another
Submitted 7/9
20163278xx
Approved 40min later
They were only 6 submissions apart.

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Submitted 7/9
2016327xxx
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And another
Submitted 7/9
20163278xx
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They were only 6 submissions apart.

Damn, my 7/10 is 1,100 away.

Posted: 5/4/2017 2:21:57 PM EDT

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Submitted 7/8
Approved 5/4

20163267xx

Posted: 5/4/2017 3:56:20 PM EDT

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I have two Forms 1 submitted 7/7, 2016324xxx and they still have not been approved, WTH?

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Ditto. The closer we get the worse the wait is!

Posted: 5/4/2017 4:02:12 PM EDT

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Damn, my 7/10 is 1,100 away.

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I'm 7/10 too. ????

Posted: 5/4/2017 4:05:02 PM EDT

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I promised myself I would forget about these last approvals but seeing the recent activity is driving me nuts. My last two F1s were submitted 7/7, control numbers 3254XX. Waiting for these feels worse than the paper F4s I'm still waiting on that were submitted a few weeks earlier...

Posted: 5/4/2017 9:58:27 PM EDT

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I promised myself I would forget about these last approvals but seeing the recent activity is driving me nuts. My last two F1s were submitted 7/7, control numbers 3254XX. Waiting for these feels worse than the paper F4s I'm still waiting on that were submitted a few weeks earlier...

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Don't get caught up with control numbers. My buddy filed a day later than me and had a higher number than me but got approved 2 weeks earlier. I got approved a week earlier than another friend that filed the same day as me and he had a lower number than me.

Posted: 5/5/2017 6:22:40 AM EDT

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FWIW, I submitted 7/10 (eform) and my control number is 6329xxx

Posted: 5/5/2017 10:03:50 AM EDT

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FWIW, I submitted 7/10 (eform) and my control number is 6329xxx

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I'm 63289xx efile 7/10

Posted: 5/5/2017 8:32:55 PM EDT

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How many per day do they seem to be doing?

Posted: 5/5/2017 9:25:25 PM EDT

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I think the VA examiner quit. I'm 7-8 e file, form 1

Posted: 5/5/2017 9:36:34 PM EDT

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I think the VA examiner quit. I'm 7-8 e file, form 1

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Ran off with the OK examiner to Mexico

Posted: 5/6/2017 1:45:21 PM EDT

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Not enough.

All these dates, I'm about 2 weeks away. Hoping for the end of this month but I'm thinking it will be next.

Posted: 5/7/2017 8:47:03 PM EDT

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7/7 form 1 efiles

3242XX
3241XX

What is the deal???

Posted: 5/7/2017 9:53:25 PM EDT

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3242XX
3241XX

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I know, right?

Posted: 5/8/2017 6:50:45 AM EDT

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Efile 7/8/16

Control No. 3260xx

Approved 5/5/17

Still waiting on 1 filed the same day and 2 more on couple days later.

Posted: 5/8/2017 7:54:22 AM EDT

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Efile 7/8/16

Approved 5/7/17

Control No. 3264xx

Approved on a Sunday

Posted: 5/8/2017 9:23:47 AM EDT

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7/7 form 1 efiles

3242XX
3241XX

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What state? The difference in processing is probably due to the individual NFA inspectors and where they are in their respective piles of forms.

Posted: 5/8/2017 9:25:54 AM EDT

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What state? The difference in processing is probably due to the individual NFA inspectors and where they are in their respective piles of forms.

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Georgia

Posted: 5/8/2017 9:35:06 AM EDT

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Doesn't make a bit of difference. They got away from the "examiners assigned by state" a couple years ago. It's simply a matter of volume. They hand out a stack of forms, and if you think about two that are next to each other in the big stack, one ends up at the top of one examiner's stack while the other (that was actually ahead of the first one) is left on the bottom of another examiner's stack. Add to that the variable speeds at which examiner's work, and it's an imperfect FIFO system.

And the eForms are handled in a similar manner...not worked exactly in consecutive order.

Posted: 5/8/2017 10:54:16 AM EDT

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Doesn't make a bit of difference. They got away from the "examiners assigned by state" a couple years ago. It's simply a matter of volume. They hand out a stack of forms, and if you think about two that are next to each other in the big stack, one ends up at the top of one examiner's stack while the other (that was actually ahead of the first one) is left on the bottom of another examiner's stack. Add to that the variable speeds at which examiner's work, and it's an imperfect FIFO system.

And the eForms are handled in a similar manner...not worked exactly in consecutive order.

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How do you know they don't assign examiners by state anymore? Every form 1 I've had approved has been processed by one of two examiners and the same is true of everyone I know in my state. If they weren't assigned by state and processed in batches, I would expect to see at least one of the other examiners in there somewhere. My sample size is large enough to rule out coincidence.

Posted: 5/8/2017 1:52:38 PM EDT

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I don't know about other people in other states, heck I don't even know about other people in my state but i stepped through my last 16 stamps all sent in with same address in NC and out of those 16, I had 11 different examiners sign off. Of the 16, 12 were form 4 and 4 were form 1. Most repeated examiners were all cases where I filed forms together. I read that it stopped going by states under certain examiners years ago. Judging by my own experience it seems like its just luck of the draw.

Posted: 5/8/2017 3:02:44 PM EDT

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I don't know about other people in other states, heck I don't even know about other people in my state but i stepped through my last 16 stamps all sent in with same address in NC and out of those 16, I had 11 different examiners sign off. Of the 16, 12 were form 4 and 4 were form 1. Most repeated examiners were all cases where I filed forms together. I read that it stopped going by states under certain examiners years ago. Judging by my own experience it seems like its just luck of the draw.

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Fair enough, I have 8 stamps and know of at least a dozen others in my state that are all the same examiner. Maybe my state is special. Because it sucks.

Posted: 5/8/2017 3:06:36 PM EDT

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How do you know they don't assign examiners by state anymore? Every form 1 I've had approved has been processed by one of two examiners and the same is true of everyone I know in my state. If they weren't assigned by state and processed in batches, I would expect to see at least one of the other examiners in there somewhere. My sample size is large enough to rule out coincidence.

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How do you know they don't assign examiners by state anymore? Every form 1 I've had approved has been processed by one of two examiners and the same is true of everyone I know in my state. If they weren't assigned by state and processed in batches, I would expect to see at least one of the other examiners in there somewhere. My sample size is large enough to rule out coincidence.

Because the ATF sent out a notification saying as much. I believe tony_k posted it here at the time.

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I don't know about other people in other states, heck I don't even know about other people in my state but i stepped through my last 16 stamps all sent in with same address in NC and out of those 16, I had 11 different examiners sign off. Of the 16, 12 were form 4 and 4 were form 1. Most repeated examiners were all cases where I filed forms together. I read that it stopped going by states under certain examiners years ago. Judging by my own experience it seems like its just luck of the draw.

Same here. 15 different signatures across the last two dozen approvals, all within the last 3 years or so.

Posted: 5/9/2017 9:50:56 PM EDT

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Don't get caught up with control numbers. My buddy filed a day later than me and had a higher number than me but got approved 2 weeks earlier. I got approved a week earlier than another friend that filed the same day as me and he had a lower number than me.

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I promised myself I would forget about these last approvals but seeing the recent activity is driving me nuts. My last two F1s were submitted 7/7, control numbers 3254XX. Waiting for these feels worse than the paper F4s I'm still waiting on that were submitted a few weeks earlier...

Don't get caught up with control numbers. My buddy filed a day later than me and had a higher number than me but got approved 2 weeks earlier. I got approved a week earlier than another friend that filed the same day as me and he had a lower number than me.

Yeah I am 3254XX as well, 7/7, and still nothing :(.

Posted: 5/9/2017 10:18:38 PM EDT

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Yeah I am 3254XX as well, 7/7, and still nothing :(.

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I promised myself I would forget about these last approvals but seeing the recent activity is driving me nuts. My last two F1s were submitted 7/7, control numbers 3254XX. Waiting for these feels worse than the paper F4s I'm still waiting on that were submitted a few weeks earlier...

Don't get caught up with control numbers. My buddy filed a day later than me and had a higher number than me but got approved 2 weeks earlier. I got approved a week earlier than another friend that filed the same day as me and he had a lower number than me.

Yeah I am 3254XX as well, 7/7, and still nothing :(.

My best guess with control numbers is they are a "month" estimation. If your number is close then you might be approved within a month.

Posted: 5/10/2017 6:29:32 AM EDT

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I'm new to the NFA game. And am currently waiting on my first Form 1 cashed 3/11/17 and first Form 4 cashed 4/13/17, uggggg along wait I know. My question is at what point do you receive a control # and how do you find out what it is?

Posted: 5/10/2017 7:18:40 AM EDT

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I'm new to the NFA game. And am currently waiting on my first Form 1 cashed 3/11/17 and first Form 4 cashed 4/13/17, uggggg along wait I know. My question is at what point do you receive a control # and how do you find out what it is?

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There is no control number with paper forms persé. You go by serial number with paper forms.

Posted: 5/10/2017 8:05:30 AM EDT

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you can call the ATF NFA branch and they will give you your control number (at least for form 1's) however they don't correlate with the e-form #'s. I submitted a paper form 1 on 7/11 and I just called Monday and my control # is 2017872XX check was cashed 7/22 the first 4 of the control # is the year the form went into "in process" so that basically means no paper forms around the last days of 41P were even put into the system until after the new year.

its going to be a looong wait

Posted: 5/10/2017 9:15:18 AM EDT

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I submitted a paper form 1 on 7/11 and I just called Monday and my control # is 2017872XX check was cashed 7/22 the first 4 of the control # is the year the form went into "in process" so that basically means no paper forms around the last days of 41P were even put into the system until after the new year.

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Just as info...it's not as bad as you think.

The ATF uses fiscal years, so 2017 started on 10/1/16. I spot checked an eform I had to confirm they were done the same way, and I have a 10/10/14 submission with a 2015 Control Number.

Posted: 5/10/2017 9:46:29 AM EDT

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I think the VA examiner quit. I'm 7-8 e file, form 1

Ran off with the OK examiner to Mexico

They're having a 3-way with the one from LA. 7/7 efile F1...

Posted: 5/10/2017 10:37:18 AM EDT

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Has anyone heard of a 7/7 approval? I haven't come across any on several forums.

Posted: 5/10/2017 2:07:14 PM EDT

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Has anyone heard of a 7/7 approval? I haven't come across any on several forums.

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They're having a 3-way with the one from LA. 7/7 efile F1...

Has anyone heard of a 7/7 approval? I haven't come across any on several forums.

Just look at the last couple of pages. Many 7/7' and 7/8's. What sucks is that my 7/7 hasn't been approved yet.

Posted: 5/10/2017 4:22:21 PM EDT

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To be the glimmer of hope.....NFA tracker has some July 9 Form 1 efile trusts approved.......

Posted: 5/10/2017 4:46:09 PM EDT

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I'm still waiting on five from July. Four had the check cashed on the 14th and the last check wasn't cashed until the 22nd. All were mailed on the same day around the 7th.

Posted: 5/10/2017 6:22:49 PM EDT

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Submitted in process on 7.7.2016

Approved 5.9.2017

Control Number: 2016328xxx

Posted: 5/10/2017 8:18:39 PM EDT

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What was the control number if you don't mind me asking? Thank you.

Posted: 5/11/2017 1:03:13 AM EDT

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E-file submitted 7/8/16

Approved 5/10/17

Control number 3278xx

Now to chop the barrel.

Posted: 5/12/2017 12:26:51 PM EDT

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7/10 and still waiting =(

Posted: 5/12/2017 3:42:32 PM EDT

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Today (5/12/2017) I just got mine (Form 1 for an LLC) submitted 7/7/16, control number in the 2016324xxx range.

Posted: 5/12/2017 4:41:00 PM EDT

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Today (5/12/2017) I just got mine (Form 1 for an LLC) submitted 7/7/16, control number in the 2016324xxx range.

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324xxx range..... there is hope!

Posted: 5/12/2017 8:30:38 PM EDT

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Still waiting for a 325xxx from 7/7
seems like a pile of forms got skipped or misplaced

Posted: 5/13/2017 6:30:04 AM EDT

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2016328xxx added to post above.

Posted: 5/13/2017 2:22:31 PM EDT

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I'm only 4 days out submission date wise. (7/11) but that could be a lot of days processing wise. I was hoping for a little sprint here towards the end since eForms was down so much that last week

Posted: 5/13/2017 6:15:26 PM EDT

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Yep, me too. 7/11 submission date.

Posted: 5/13/2017 6:51:33 PM EDT

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I have a 6/20 that became a 7/13 due to "research".

It's six days later than yours, but the control number is 2016337XXX, 9000 more in six days.

It's my last pre-41P submission!