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Re: April 2009 Applications
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:51 pm
by quickdraw
texas1234 wrote:Chip if your background checks are complete you should have the card in hand in two weeks. Your application has already been looked through at this point and most of the time they are only waiting on background checks. The only thing that can delay that two weeks now is a screwup from the printer. From my experience and what i have seen the only thing that holds up DPS is background checks and they are normally right on once they get them back.
Mine was sent to print on Wednesday the 8th and was Application Complete/Mailed sometime between Wednesday evening(the 15th) and Friday about noon when I checked again, so it was out to the printer eight or nine days. That was a little better than two to three weeks to print as I have read.
164 days so far, just waiting on the mail now. I see a lot of people on here very impatient at less than 90 days, if they have another two or three months to wait they are going to drive themselfs crazy. I didn't start checking status till well after a hundred days.
Re: April 2009 Applications
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:11 am
by Dexdahex
congrats chip....
Re: April 2009 Applications
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:36 am
by UTADELTAU
Just got off the phone with a nice lady on the phone with DPS about my application she said FBI background check has come back and just waiting on Harris County. Every time I check my status online when I feel like a kid opening presents on Christmas day when you fill in your DL and pin and then when I see processing application its like that present is full of clothes.
Re: April 2009 Applications
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:42 am
by USA1
UTADELTAU wrote: I feel like a kid opening presents on Christmas day when you fill in your DL and pin and then when I see processing application its like that present is full of clothes.
its true
just as you click the submit button , you take a deep breath ,eyes get big , and BAM , let down again .
same feeling i got during election night .
Re: April 2009 Applications
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:04 am
by gwtrikenut
So, if Harris county hired 35 more people to do back ground checks, things should go 35 times faster. Correct? Or does this give the one back ground checker 35 more people to play golf with? Because it seems if 35 more people were hired, we would be seeing more Harris county applications being approved.
Re: April 2009 Applications
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:13 am
by USA1
just called DPS..only my second call to them.
i have been trying to avoid calling because i just know it doesn't do much good .
but my curiosity got the best of me .
i was told that my back ground investigation has just been completed and returned yesterday .
i was given the name of the technician that is handling my application .
i was told to give her 2 weeks to go over the information before calling back .
i politely thanked her for her time .
its not a lot ,but its way more info than i got from the first call 2 weeks ago .
Re: April 2009 Applications
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:51 am
by FishermanCool
By my count I am now at day 104, many less than some on this board, but much longer than it should take. Last week sent an e-mail to my state rep., followed by a phone call with is staff. I just received a call from the DPS stating that the delay was due to the Harris county (can you believe that
) BG check. Everything else is good to go. He first said that it should all be completed in 2 to 3 weeks and that additional staff in Harris county had been brought on board to help alleviate the slow response. As we continued the conversation he said he could not promise, but all should be done in 3 to 4 weeks (note it has now grown by an additional week). I pushed the issue that my employer was located in Harris not me, I live in Orange county, he said that by statute they had to do a back ground check there. This opened the door for a question about 90 day denial (by statute), he responded with that was only for applicants with criminal backgounds, not waiting on a background check!
Do these folks think they are dealing with complete idiots?
Re: April 2009 Applications
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:00 pm
by Kevinf2349
Aladinbama wrote:FishermanCool wrote:Do these folks think they are dealing with complete idiots?
Yep! or maybe, "Sheep"
The wait continues ...
or maybe they just have no reason to be honest because they hold all the cards and what can you do?
Re: April 2009 Applications
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:11 am
by Dexdahex
gwtrikenut wrote:So, if Harris county hired 35 more people to do back ground checks, things should go 35 times faster. Correct? Or does this give the one back ground checker 35 more people to play golf with? Because it seems if 35 more people were hired, we would be seeing more Harris county applications being approved.
35 times
SLOWER...
Re: April 2009 Applications
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:13 am
by Dexdahex
usa1 wrote:just called DPS..only my second call to them.
i have been trying to avoid calling because i just know it doesn't do much good .
but my curiosity got the best of me .
i was told that my back ground investigation has just been completed and returned yesterday .
i was given the name of the technician that is handling my application .
i was told to give her 2 weeks to go over the information before calling back .
i politely thanked her for her time .
its not a lot ,but its way more info than i got from the first call 2 weeks ago .
I guess it takes 2 weeks to read it....
or does it go into another pile
Re: April 2009 Applications
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:16 am
by Dexdahex
Aladinbama wrote:usa1 wrote:just called DPS..only my second call to them.
i have been trying to avoid calling because i just know it doesn't do much good .
but my curiosity got the best of me .
i was told that my back ground investigation has just been completed and returned yesterday .
i was given the name of the technician that is handling my application .
i was told to give her 2 weeks to go over the information before calling back .
i politely thanked her for her time .
its not a lot ,but its way more info than i got from the first call 2 weeks ago .
Very similar to my experience two weeks ago. Although the tech working on my application called me, informed me that my background checks were not completed (the BIG three here - Brazoria, Galveston, and Harris counties), and questioned whether or not I redid my fingerprints as was needed (sent in over a month earlier). She told me to call back in two weeks and she would definitely have much more information for me.
I called this morning, she said they were still waiting on BG checks (she thought, but she would check), and that she had to verify some information from another person. When she had a chance to do that, she would call me right back. I haven't heard anything back yet. Just as a FYI, the person's initials I am dealing with is M.D. and the number I call goes directly to her desk.
I think one of their major problems is that they have too many people working on the same applications - this person does this, and that person does that sort of thing. Everybody seems to be having to check on what someone else needed to do. Maybe if they just assigned an application to "A" person and that person was the only person to do everything necessary with that application things would go a little smoother (oh, yeah - sorry, I forgot we were talking about a government agency here).
None-the-less, again I only know when they cashed the check - we're officially at day 90 here (but who's counting).
All 35 new hires for harris county are working on them at the same time and they all think the other person will complete it...
Re: April 2009 Applications
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 10:24 am
by USA1
Dexdahex wrote:usa1 wrote:just called DPS..only my second call to them.
i have been trying to avoid calling because i just know it doesn't do much good .
but my curiosity got the best of me .
i was told that my back ground investigation has just been completed and returned yesterday .
i was given the name of the technician that is handling my application .
i was told to give her 2 weeks to go over the information before calling back .
i politely thanked her for her time .
its not a lot ,but its way more info than i got from the first call 2 weeks ago .
I guess it takes 2 weeks to read it....
or does it go into another pile
pile
Re: April 2009 Applications
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 11:05 am
by Dexdahex
Re: April 2009 Applications
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 11:11 am
by USA1
dont you hate it when you have more questions when you hang up, than when you called ?
Re: April 2009 Applications
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 11:37 am
by Dexdahex
dont you hate it when you have more questions when you hang up, than when you called ?[/quote
