ckraus wrote:Bit of an update. Despite showing referred to ServiceNSW on 7/7 it’s been a full 7 days and still no letter has arrived. Called them to check and was advised Australia Post can take up to 5 weeks.
5 weeks, that’s BS
I always said they should let us collect the paperwork from a local police station - print it out there and get us to sign for it (unless they can’t trust their own police officers) .. or better yet just send it to ServiceNSW for them to use same photo as drivers licence and get us to collect from a nominated local branch ... having to use AustPost is absolutely crazy.
Anything that comes from FAR (Murwillumbah) is a minimum 6 day wait for me .. to Sydney metro.
Photo licence from Parkes was 5 days
ckraus wrote:Also looks like they have lost my sons application. Have logged a query for someone to check.
About the worst thing you want to hear.
Hope they fast track it and sort it out quickly for u
Wonder how long it would take before they admit that ... they still haven’t taken payment for my sons applications, AustPost say received 4 July 2019.
ckraus wrote:The story I got told is they send the paperwork to parramatta to take payment then send them back. Very inefficient.
That is unbelievable..
What I heard from an RO today was, was he heard that they (FAR) were piling up applications then dealing with them in batches .. so one week they would do fresh firearm lic applications, the next week might be minors permits, the next might be something else.
This sounds right to me, as a bunch of u guys that had firearm applications spread across April (ie. 4th to 27th) were all approved at the same time.
K2bonsai wrote:How long is the PTA taking at the moment?
I’m not personally aware of current delays for first time PTAs ..
Replies in this thread in Jan 2019 said it was pretty. much 28 days plus a week (that was also my experience):
viewtopic.php?f=74&t=11289#p187223Replies in this thread in April 2019 said much the same:
viewtopic.php?f=74&t=11311If it helps, I had a subsequent PTA issued in a few days and paperwork received 6 days later (mid June 2019). A 2 week process .. I think PTAs without a cooling off period are still dealt with weekly from all reports ..
ckraus wrote:Will let you know how I go..
Very much appreciated.
Best of luck with the application - hope u get ur ServiceNSW letter over the next couple of days!