Pal how long to get

How long does it usually take? It's the law. Then they start working on it. They may or may not cash the cheque in that period. The average time for a PAL to be approved used to be 45 days. The advertised reason for the 28 day do-nothing period is that it's a cooling off period. That may make some sense in other jurisdictions, but here we have the CFSC before, and the background checks and interviews after, so it makes no sense at all in Canada because even without it it would still take 30 days from the time you decide to go through the hoops until you could possibly get one.

If you renew via the website, it will eventually appear on the website. If you apply via snail mail, I don't think it ever appears on the website. Last edited by RangeBob; at PM. I know, but it says in their FAQ that it does let you know if they received your application. Unless it will ony show after the 28 days? So they don't open it at all until 28 days is passed?

Don't make any plans for it untill it's in your hands though, I was supposed to be camping and blowing through a few hundred or thousand rounds this week. Phone them up, be extra polite. I got my PAL in May for restricted and non-restricted. I mailed a complete application and it took 41 days to be approved.

I called once a week as soon as it appeared online to check on the status. I sent my paperwork in late June, took about 2w to show up on the website. My RPAL arrived last week, about a week after the website said that it was approved. The site states that it may be up to 2 weeks but it sounds like yours may have gotten lost somewhere. I live in Ontario. I already had my PAL, but you pretty much have to go through the complete process all over, and they called my references this time.

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