Posted: 5/1/2009 9:50:15 AM EDT
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I am getting ready to mail my CHL application in today or tomorrow (whenever I get to the post office).
Anyone know what the wait times are like lately? Still running 60-90 days from when they receive it? |
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that sound about right, longer if youre in Harris County or the surrounding area Nope... Travis County here... Why does it take longer in Harris County? The processing is all done in Austin as far as I know. Are they just slow in responding to background check requests or something? |
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that sound about right, longer if youre in Harris County or the surrounding area Nope... Travis County here... Why does it take longer in Harris County? The processing is all done in Austin as far as I know. Are they just slow in responding to background check requests or something? The processing is not all done in Austin. DPS sends a Trooper into the counties you have lived and worked to complete manual checks on your criminal and civil records, as required by the Government Code. That said, I believe Harris county is back to its normal backlog. |
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that sound about right, longer if youre in Harris County or the surrounding area Nope... Travis County here... Why does it take longer in Harris County? The processing is all done in Austin as far as I know. Are they just slow in responding to background check requests or something? The processing is not all done in Austin. DPS sends a Trooper into the counties you have lived and worked to complete manual checks on your criminal and civil records, as required by the Government Code. That said, I believe Harris county is back to its normal backlog. What if you lived in another state prior to moving to Texas, but have lived in the same county in Texas for more than 5 years? |
| I'm at just over 4 months of waiting here in San Antonio. Two friends in the Houston area took theirs and it took one 5 months and the other 7 months to get their's recently. I've see someone post they got theirs in a month, so I guess it depends on where you live and how backed up they are. |
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that sound about right, longer if youre in Harris County or the surrounding area Nope... Travis County here... Why does it take longer in Harris County? The processing is all done in Austin as far as I know. Are they just slow in responding to background check requests or something? The processing is not all done in Austin. DPS sends a Trooper into the counties you have lived and worked to complete manual checks on your criminal and civil records, as required by the Government Code. That said, I believe Harris county is back to its normal backlog. What if you lived in another state prior to moving to Texas, but have lived in the same county in Texas for more than 5 years? I believe they will computer inqiury your former state, and do the physical checks in yur current county. |
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I am in Travis County, and today is day 81 since I hand delivered my packet to DPS. I called DPS for the first time yesterday, and was told that all they are waiting on is the Travis County background check and there is no one I can call in Travis County to discuss the situation. The lady on the phone said maybe I will have it in 2 or 3 more weeks, or maybe it will be longer.
Anyone know who to call in Travis County? I considered contacting my state congresspeeps, but suspect Donna Howard and Kirk Watson would be worthless on the issue. |
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I am in Travis County, and today is day 81 since I hand delivered my packet to DPS. I called DPS for the first time yesterday, and was told that all they are waiting on is the Travis County background check and there is no one I can call in Travis County to discuss the situation. The lady on the phone said maybe I will have it in 2 or 3 more weeks, or maybe it will be longer. Anyone know who to call in Travis County? I considered contacting my state congresspeeps, but suspect Donna Howard and Kirk Watson would be worthless on the issue. DPS has 90 days from when they receive a complete application from you to issue, deny or tell you they need more time. Sounds like they told you they will need more time. You can call your Congresscritter, but DPS is within the law. BTW, it is a DPS employee doing the Travis County Background check. |
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that sound about right, longer if youre in Harris County or the surrounding area Nope... Travis County here... Why does it take longer in Harris County? The processing is all done in Austin as far as I know. Are they just slow in responding to background check requests or something? The processing is not all done in Austin. DPS sends a Trooper into the counties you have lived and worked to complete manual checks on your criminal and civil records, as required by the Government Code. That said, I believe Harris county is back to its normal backlog. What if you lived in another state prior to moving to Texas, but have lived in the same county in Texas for more than 5 years? I believe they will computer inqiury your former state, and do the physical checks in yur current county. Well, I pretty much know what will come back from my previous state of residence (nothing), because I sent them a certified copy of a document from that state's DPS stating that I have no record there... Actually if it weren't for the self-reporting section they wouldn't have anything from my application to tell them I had ever lived in the previous state since the application only asks for your residences within the last 5 years. And they won't find anything in Travis County other than a couple of traffic tickets that don't count against the CHL. |
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that sound about right, longer if youre in Harris County or the surrounding area Nope... Travis County here... Why does it take longer in Harris County? The processing is all done in Austin as far as I know. Are they just slow in responding to background check requests or something? The processing is not all done in Austin. DPS sends a Trooper into the counties you have lived and worked to complete manual checks on your criminal and civil records, as required by the Government Code. That said, I believe Harris county is back to its normal backlog. What if you lived in another state prior to moving to Texas, but have lived in the same county in Texas for more than 5 years? I believe they will computer inqiury your former state, and do the physical checks in yur current county. Well, I pretty much know what will come back from my previous state of residence (nothing), because I sent them a certified copy of a document from that state's DPS stating that I have no record there... Actually if it weren't for the self-reporting section they wouldn't have anything from my application to tell them I had ever lived in the previous state since the application only asks for your residences within the last 5 years. And they won't find anything in Travis County other than a couple of traffic tickets that don't count against the CHL. Yeah, they will run an NCIC on you. Plus the FBI check should show anything. They are counting on felonies showing in the FBI check. Since misdemeanors are only a 5 year disqualifier they only ask for 5 years of residences. Let's hope they get your license to you quickly. 
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I just logged off the TexasCHLform after lurking in the Waiting Room section and was totally bummed out at what I was reading about the processing times. 
Then I came here and saw this thread. I hope 90 days or less is the norm right now. I was thinking it would be worse because of a spike in applications. Assuming applications are on the rise like ammo and firearm sales. Tic toc tic toc. 
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I'm sitting on about 65 days, so hopefully it comes in pretty soon. And doesn't the DPS have to issue you a CHL after 90 days even if you have no cleared the federal background check? NOT. There is a rule about the number of days to issue the CHL or give you a response of some kind as mentioned above. Unfortunately, there are no consequences to DPS if they fail to meet this rule. Be nice if they would refund some of the fee they charge if they go past the deadline though, but that will never happen. |
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I'm sitting on about 65 days, so hopefully it comes in pretty soon. And doesn't the DPS have to issue you a CHL after 90 days even if you have no cleared the federal background check? NOT. There is a rule about the number of days to issue the CHL or give you a response of some kind as mentioned above. Unfortunately, there are no consequences to DPS if they fail to meet this rule. Be nice if they would refund some of the fee they charge if they go past the deadline though, but that will never happen. 90 days to approve, deny or tell you they need more time. |