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I was wondering if a persons background would affect the time it took for processing there at the DPS. Would a person with a spotless background go quicker and jump the stacks faster than someone whos background needed investigating?

Doesn't appear that a spotless record means a faster processing time.

An Honorable Discharge or Active Military seems to process a bit faster. The online application seems to speed it up. Your address history also seems to have an impact. If you haved lived in the same house for 30 years, it will probably go faster than if you have lived in 10 different counties. Other than that, it's kind of random.

Kerbouchard wrote:An Honorable Discharge or Active Military seems to process a bit faster. The online application seems to speed it up. Your address history also seems to have an impact. If you haved lived in the same house for 30 years, it will probably go faster than if you have lived in 10 different counties. Other than that, it's kind of random.

I think it's all random, if your record is clean or basically clean. I also don't think the online app helps much either looking at my times. If the only way you cold apply is online, that might help some. But the places I called to take the corse said to not apply online. Now maybe they just wanted me to sign up and lock in a time, but some places had 2-3 week waiting periods for the class. And I didn't have to give them a deposit to sign up either.

I think the waits are simply suppy and demand. The demand is high and the supply of people processing the apps is low.

JMHO...Rob

Kalrog wrote:Doesn't appear that a spotless record means a faster processing time.

A 24 year old "kid" who used to work in our office right out of college took 152 days. She was never in trouble, not even a traffic ticket. She lived in two different counties her entire life -- at home, then when she was at Baylor for four years, then back to Harris County.

You have a 25% chance of being over 100 days, if you have a clean record. If your background requires any additional investigation, who knows how long that's going to take!

Chas.

This was kinda my first real post. I had been reading here for quite some time and done a lot of research while waiting. I was just curious to see if anyone had experienced or seen an example of this. I have lived in nueces county all my 22 years of life and the only tickets i have ever gotten were traffic and always dismissed with defensive driving. I'm about 40 days deep from the day they received my packet and know thats just the tip of the iceburg. I also did not apply online.

hmmm I've lived and worked in three different states in the past 8 years. I wonder how much longer I'll have to wait. Its been two months since they finally got my complete package (took them three to even look at it and tell me something was missing) so in total 5 months now I wonder if I'll even see my plastic before my B'day in December

Kerbouchard wrote:An Honorable Discharge or Active Military seems to process a bit faster. The online application seems to speed it up. Your address history also seems to have an impact. If you have lived in the same house for 30 years, it will probably go faster than if you have lived in 10 different counties. Other than that, it's kind of random.

TX DPS hires a field background check agent for each municipality you have lived in. In my case I lived in Mansfield, Arlington, and three places in Illinois in the last 20 years. My assumption is this is why the background check (field work portion) took a while for my application.

KaiserB wrote:

Kerbouchard wrote:An Honorable Discharge or Active Military seems to process a bit faster. The online application seems to speed it up. Your address history also seems to have an impact. If you have lived in the same house for 30 years, it will probably go faster than if you have lived in 10 different counties. Other than that, it's kind of random.

TX DPS hires a field background check agent for each municipality you have lived in. In my case I lived in Mansfield, Arlington, and three places in Illinois in the last 20 years. My assumption is this is why the background check (field work portion) took a while for my application.

WOW I lived in Hawaii, San Diego Ca, then here in Corpus...Now Im not laughing I still hope to see it before December.