The definitive "THE CALL" thread... (HCP)

Wife got hers in exactly 30 days, no call. About a month ago.......

Well it's been three weeks, so I called about my HCP. I got some woman who didn't sound as if she was in a good mood. She told me I can expect mine around the first of the year . Oh well, I assume that's not concrete.

So far, no luck. I didn't expect much. After all, it has only been three weeks.

Just called. The lady said my permit was issued on the second and to expect it within 14 days. I got fingerprinted 3-4 weeks ago. Not too bad.

I made my call 7 days after getting printed.....9 days later had my permit in the mail. YMMV

I recently renewed my permit, and it took quite a while longer than I see people on here getting initial permits, so I called and talked a nice lady there who told me that the initial HCPs were pretty fast, but that the renewals were WAY behind...she couldnt tell me why, but she said they arent allowed to do anything until it had been in their system for at least 45 days. She told me that if the B/G check wasn't ran in that time, THEN they could go in and manually run it. She told me to wait until after that 45 days had passed and if I still hadnt heard anything, to call back. I waited until the 46-47 day point and called, and the lady ran my number and said no nothithings back yet, let me manually get it dione, and then said I would have it in a couple weeks. I got it the NEXT week. I KNOW those folks are understaffed and overworked and I think they do an amazing job considering that.