PAL/RPAL Timelines

[94sahara]

May 24: Mailed Application and test results for R/Pal from BC
May 30: Received at Miramichi
June 19: Message appears online: “Your application has completed initial processing. It is now in progress. Please check the status again at a later date.”
June 20: $80 Cheque Cashed
June 22: First Reference Interviewed
June 25: My Interview
June 25: Second Reference Interviewed
June 27: Message appears online: “Your application has been processed and your licence has been issued. If you have not received your licence within 2 weeks please contact the Canada Firearms Center Toll Free number. (1-800 731-4000)”

Total 28 Days from day received at Miramichi, never had to call in.

Update:

July 10: Recieved Restricted PAL today!

Total 47 days from dropping it in the mail box to putting it in my wallet.

[Baker]

Current Status: Your application has completed initial processing. It is now in progress. Please check the status again at a later date.

Still in progress apparently.

[woodenkayaker]

Application Received on: 2012/06/11

Current Status: Your application has completed initial processing. It is now in progress. Please check the status again at a later date.
please define initial processing...please for the love of god define PROGRESS!
*sigh*
Yea, I know...Im impatient...

[Baker]

Current Status: Your application has been processed and your licence has been issued. If you have not received your licence within 2 weeks please contact the Canada Firearms Centre Toll Free number. (1-800 731-4000)


Aww yeah! Worse part about it, it will get here when I won't be here lol.

[buzz720]

I sent my application in on June 1, I think, and I received my rpal yesterday. Now time to wait for an ATT

[pubb]

For future readers of this thread:

There is a mandatory 28 day wait. They won't even look at your application until those 28 days are up. Make use of that time!

You can send your application in BEFORE you get your test back. Just don't check the box which says, "test report included" (or something like that). If you are in Ontario, and you have to get your test reports back from the CFO before you can mail them to the RCMP, this can save you several weeks.

Once your information is on the website, give them a few days to get your information updated, do the background check and scan your photograph. Once that is done, they will speak to your references and do the interview with you. Don't wait for them to call your references, give your references the number and have them call in. Better yet: if possible, arrange for all three of you to be at the same place and pass the phone from one to the other.

Cheers,

P

[Ticketed]

58 days here with one phone call.

Not great, but definitely not the worst timeline I've heard.

[Baker]

Mine got home yesterday. I'll have it in hand later this weekend


Sent via davey jones from the locker.

[Haywire1]

For future readers of this thread:

There is a mandatory 28 day wait. They won't even look at your application until those 28 days are up. Make use of that time!

actually yeah they will, after it shows online, wait a week and call in, ask if there is any info missing. i was told my PAL was approved, they were waiting for the 28 day to expire. the 28 day period only stops them from issuing, not from processing.

[ronburgundy]

about 5 months from the moment i wrote the tests...