Gotta be hang in there your close they probably send a batch off for print at the end of the week even if your approved earlier in the week
That's a big part of why it needs to be an apples to apples comparison. "The state made me wait 90 days. MCO (I use them because they've seemed especially bad about it) made me wait 30 more."
Are you in a large population area? Wondering if you're not getting hit with Christmas mail delay.
Yeah! I’m 35 minutes outside of Chicago! South Suburbs. I thought the same thing, but I’m not super rural!
Thanks man! I know I’m close, thanks for the kind words! Should be tomorrow! Thursday at the latest!
Just to clarify: MCO=medical Cannabis Outreach? And is it bad or good if they complete your application?
Yes, MCO has been known to hold completed applications -- sometimes seemingly for weeks -- before submitting them to the state. This adds unnecessarily to the wait time (and isn't the fault of the state), so I exclude those applicants from my tally.
Do you think this is true for online applications? I went through one of their clinics and left with the impression that everything was done and submitted.
If your card has been charged, then you're fine (and that's your "application received" date to start your 90-day expected wait time). If your card has not been charged, then someone may be holding your application.
Oh it's definitely BEEN true and too often repeated. I think many of the clinics changed to applying online and quickly since the threat of provisional access became real. So hopefully you're safe with your later application.
Three days in two would actually get them caught up after a couple of months. But I've been on this forum for a couple of months now, and the wait time has never varied from about 90 days average. They haven't gotten further ahead or farther behind. Which sort of makes it seem like the office is being directed to keep the wait time at 90 days, regardless of how many or how few apps are actually being processed...
That’s crazy. My card was charged the day I went to the clinic so that’s a relief. Why would they hold them? Is there a reason?
I submitted online and CC charged on 9/26 and I've got nothing from ILIt's discouraging.
My app was submitted online and cc charged on 10/5, and I have never received any follow up or information from the state. No 'your application has been submitted' acknowledgement, etc. No notice of approval, no 'QP # email, and no provisional access paperwork.
Is there anyone here who has received anything from the state before getting their card? If so, what? Because I ain't got shit
Well, unless there is a problem with your application, you'll be getting something any day now - congratulations!
Exactly! They sped up a little at the beginning of November but that was for the big slow down at the end. The numbers they approve go up and down by the reports but the wait stays the same, like they intentionally hold applications for 2 months then do whatever came in 2 months ago.
As long as your card was charged by IDPH and not MCO they got your application that day.
Don't forget that the 90 days in the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act is to "approve or deny an application or renewal" ... and that the Act gives IDPH an additional "15 business days" after to "issue registry identification cards." Fifteen business days is three weeks, or approximately 21 days. So the Act allows IDPH to take up to roughly 111 days to issue cards.
I don't think the 90 days should take effect until provisional does. But I know how IL works and that would be their excuse, not that they need an excuse.