ckraus wrote:Success finally. After being approved on 3rd of August it finally turned up yesterday.
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Total time to get a letter from one side of NSW to the other - 8 weeks and 2 days.
My kids minor’s permits also came thru and delivered same time as ckraus
03/07/2019 - express post application to FAR (bounced around between murwillumbah and parramatta via Brisbane)
10/07/2019 - payt taken
21/09/2019 - approved - on the online checker
30/09/2019 - received paper permits
Pretty much 3 months - same as the adult licence times being experienced at the moment (except for the photo card processing time)
Things to note:
- I’m the licenced adult and was already licensed at the start of the permit application ... not sure if ckraus minor’s permits were delayed because he wasn’t licensed prior to his kids permits? (Maybe they had to approved ckraus then give his kids a cooling off period before progressing their permits?)
- other than Payt being taken, you don’t hear from FAR
- it’s a slower process (advised by FAR) as it’s all a manual process - not electronic like adult licences or pistol
- you’re going to have to call to get progress (or lack thereof) status updates
- once the application is “scanned into the computer” FAR can give u a licence number to track on the online status checks (this is late in the process close to when the permits got approved)
- once approved and letter received, I noticed on the envelope it was actually posted 27/09/2019 (almost a week after approved) - I assume they had the letter printed somewhere else and had it sent to FAR for checking first - before they actually could send it out us
Good luck to all for their applications and congrats to all our new shooters out there.
Be safe