Arizona CWP Renewal & New Application Processing

[CSACANNONEER]

got a renewal notice today in my mail, dropped in in the corner mail box after completing so now the wait but still have 60 days left on previous license

Really? Last year, AZ DPS told me that they no longer sent out renewal notices. I guess they lost too much money from people who didn't renew in time????

[TheNinja]

Submitted on 5/17. Received a letter in the mail today that my fingerprints weren't clear enough so I have to get them redone

Does anyone know if they'll accept electronic fingerprints? Otherwise I'll have to pay $40+ to get them redone. The cheapest place I found was $40 but apparently they aren't good at them

Every other place I called was like $60 or more for 2 cards. What a pain. Looks like I won't have my permit before I leave on vacation.

[DProm]

Submitted on 5/17. Received a letter in the mail today that my fingerprints weren't clear enough so I have to get them redone

Does anyone know if they'll accept electronic fingerprints? Otherwise I'll have to pay $40+ to get them redone. The cheapest place I found was $40 but apparently they aren't good at them

Every other place I called was like $60 or more for 2 cards. What a pain. Looks like I won't have my permit before I leave on vacation.

Ah... sorry to hear that. Guess that explains why it took so long to hear or get something.

[stoogescv]

Submitted on 5/17. Received a letter in the mail today that my fingerprints weren't clear enough so I have to get them redone

Does anyone know if they'll accept electronic fingerprints? Otherwise I'll have to pay $40+ to get them redone. The cheapest place I found was $40 but apparently they aren't good at them

Every other place I called was like $60 or more for 2 cards. What a pain. Looks like I won't have my permit before I leave on vacation.

I had my livescan fingerprints last year at a local livescan place in SoCal. When I got my LASD CCW permit, I filled out the Arizona application and called the same livescan place and they said they would do the hard cards for me. I took two cards to them and they livescanned my prints again and then printed them onto the hard cards. (they were the FBI cards I got off Amazon.) They said they do that because the livescan machine will tell them if they got a good print, so the printed cards always work. You might check with a livescan place near you. I have lots of experience with getting people fingerprinted in the old days with rolling ink, and about 50% of those got rejected by the FBI in my experience, so doing the livescan and then printing cards from the scans seems like a great improvement.

[TheNinja]

I had my livescan fingerprints last year at a local livescan place in SoCal. When I got my LASD CCW permit, I filled out the Arizona application and called the same livescan place and they said they would do the hard cards for me. I took two cards to them and they livescanned my prints again and then printed them onto the hard cards. (they were the FBI cards I got off Amazon.) They said they do that because the livescan machine will tell them if they got a good print, so the printed cards always work. You might check with a livescan place near you. I have lots of experience with getting people fingerprinted in the old days with rolling ink, and about 50% of those got rejected by the FBI in my experience, so doing the livescan and then printing cards from the scans seems like a great improvement.

That's some great info. I was reading a bit about this online as well. I'm not sure if the LiveScan people near me can print onto the cards. I've called to a bunch of UPS stores and maybe 15% or so actually do fingerprint cards. Pretty much all of them seem to do livescan though. I wonder if one of the places that does livescan and ink fingerprints would be able to print the live scan onto their own cards.

I'm definitely going to ask about it. I got the livescan done for my California CCW application (still pending b/c my county is like a 10-12 month backlog).

I think my fingers were too sweaty when I went in and the girl doing them didn't seem very confident. If I have to do ink I'll talk a towel and wipe sweat off during the process.

[rodal126]

Here's my time line.

Sent via Priority Mail: 6/16
Received: 6/19
MO Cashed: 6/23
Issue Date: 6/20
Permit in hand: 6/26

Thanks everyone for sharing their experience, definitely helped set my expectations.

[CSACANNONEER]

Submitted on 5/17. Received a letter in the mail today that my fingerprints weren't clear enough so I have to get them redone

Does anyone know if they'll accept electronic fingerprints? Otherwise I'll have to pay $40+ to get them redone. The cheapest place I found was $40 but apparently they aren't good at them

Every other place I called was like $60 or more for 2 cards. What a pain. Looks like I won't have my permit before I leave on vacation.

I would go back to the place you had them done and see if they'll redo them for free. I don't really follow what others do but, I try to always let people know that I will (and have) redone prints that have been rejected for whatever reason.

I'm not planning a trip to the Peninsula anytime soon but, if you happen to be heading down my way soon, I charge $25 total for 2 cards for AZ.

[TheNinja]

I would go back to the place you had them done and see if they'll redo them for free. I don't really follow what others do but, I try to always let people know that I will (and have) redone prints that have been rejected for whatever reason.

I'm not planning a trip to the Peninsula anytime soon but, if you happen to be heading down my way soon, I charge $25 total for 2 cards for AZ.

I'll give them a call tomorrow and ask if they'll at least give me a discount of some sorts. I found another UPS store that will do them but it's $30 each (the place I went was $25 per card so I wasted $50 already ). But I figured for $30 per card maybe I'd try a different place.

It seems here in northern California I can't find any place that will electronically scan and print. There is 1 service that offers it an they have 1 location in San Francisco, but I'm not spending hours going into the city, riding BART, trying to find parking, etc. Too much hassle IMO.

I'm going to try ink prints again and take a towel along to keep my fingers dry. I knew they were pretty sweaty doing it so that may have caused smudging. But they still looked OK to me. This is getting expensive! heh.

Where are you located btw?

[TheNinja]

Here's my time line.

Sent via Priority Mail: 6/16
Received: 6/19
MO Cashed: 6/23
Issue Date: 6/20
Permit in hand: 6/26

Thanks everyone for sharing their experience, definitely helped set my expectations.

Congrats!! That's a fast turn around. Btw, the AZ CCW people who answer the phone are just the best people. Always super nice and helpful and seem to actually enjoy what they do and care.

Did you do ink fingerprint cards btw?

[CSACANNONEER]

I'll give them a call tomorrow and ask if they'll at least give me a discount of some sorts. I found another UPS store that will do them but it's $30 each (the place I went was $25 per card so I wasted $50 already ). But I figured for $30 per card maybe I'd try a different place.

It seems here in northern California I can't find any place that will electronically scan and print. There is 1 service that offers it an they have 1 location in San Francisco, but I'm not spending hours going into the city, riding BART, trying to find parking, etc. Too much hassle IMO.

I'm going to try ink prints again and take a towel along to keep my fingers dry. I knew they were pretty sweaty doing it so that may have caused smudging. But they still looked OK to me. This is getting expensive! heh.

Where are you located btw?

Drink lots of water and use moisturizing lotion on your hands a couple hours prior to having your prints rolled. They are more pronounced when you are properly hydrated.

[inoii]

Here's my time line.

Sent via Priority Mail: 6/16
Received: 6/19
MO Cashed: 6/23
Issue Date: 6/20
Permit in hand: 6/26

Thanks everyone for sharing their experience, definitely helped set my expectations.

Wow that is fast! im on the same timeframe hoping mines get processed soon

[tokuno]

Local Sheriff's office ran my prints and supplied the cards, too. I think it was $20 or $25 each for the cards.
Sent via plain ol' cheap, untracked USPS on 6/12, the permit arrived yesterday.
It's small - easily fits in a wallet - and purty - holograms and all. 5 year expiration.

[rodal126]

Did you do ink fingerprint cards btw?

Yes, ink on the FBI cards. Went to the local Postal Annex and the person working happen to be the owner/operator so he knew the process and how the inked results should look like.


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[TheNinja]

I would go back to the place you had them done and see if they'll redo them for free. I don't really follow what others do but, I try to always let people know that I will (and have) redone prints that have been rejected for whatever reason.

I'm not planning a trip to the Peninsula anytime soon but, if you happen to be heading down my way soon, I charge $25 total for 2 cards for AZ.

So great advice and you saved me $50 bucks!! They redid them for free since I mentioned that last time I went there they were rejected.

They look much clearer this time. Some seemed a little light but better than last time. Last time between my fingers being a bet sweaty and her pushing them way too hard it was all a bunch of smudges. These looked pretty clear.

Sent today via USPS priority mail. Fingers crossed this set of prints works!

[kriller134]

Where do you get the fingerprint cards? Last time I did this, AZ mailed me a whole packet with the cards.