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I am graduating nursing school in December. I submitted a declaratory form with all supporting documents of dismissal and paid to register for the NCLEX...then I received a letter a few days later from the TX BON. It stated that I had to pay $150 for my case to be reviewed by the enforcement department. I took the money order to the offices and handed it in myself. The woman there said it would take a minimum of four months to review the case. I am sick because I wanted to start my job and the place I want to work will start new grads off in Feb. If the four month time frame, (at the minimum), is true...I guess I will just have to wait. :crying2:

The charges were for Violating a Protective Order, compliments of a rocky marriage to say the least. They were misdemeanors and they were dismissed. I am just praying that the process maybe wont take so long. Has anyone ever experienced a more favorable time frame with the TX BON for enforcement review? :uhoh3:

Liberty,

I was told once by an attorney that they aren't too harsh when it came to offenses that occurred as a minor. I believe you will be ok a lot sooner. It was also my understanding that they refer most cases to enforcement that have anything on the background check, so more than likely this is routine.

Best Wishes

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Miria - thanks for your supportive words. I will post again when I have some news regarding this whole mess :uhoh3:

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Specializes in Hem/Onc.

My letter came back and it said i need a chemical dependency evaluation from an article 15 that happened in in December of 1999. This is BS does anyone know how long it takes after the evaluation is done to be cleared? My friends were involved not me and my drug tests results were clean. This is so disappointing and stressful! I have all my original test results which i will show the evaluator does anyone know how the evaluators dimeanors are? Are they out to get you?

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Floxy,

The good news is enforcement did not take the full time and/or over to reply to you with the chemical evaluation request. It was about 7 months before I heard from enforcement and those few weeks do make a difference.

The best is to get your evaluation done asap. The longer you wait, the longer it takes for your report to get back to the Board, further delaying their response.

As far as if the evaluators are out to get you, not sure about that. I believe that if your evaluator determines you are low risk, your sobriety remains, and complete the necessary exams without trouble ( Minnesota Personality Test and SASSI to evaluate for dependency and drug abuse behaviors and stressors), you will more than likely get a favorable response from the evaluator.

You do have the option to choose your evaluator so this might decrease your concern of getting someone who you might not be comfortable with.

I strongly suggest you call your evaluator yourself when setting up an appointment, talk to them about your situation and see what kind of response you get. Almost all will say there is no way of telling because results depend on what shows on these exams, nonetheless, this will help you in determining who to choose.

Hope this helps and hang in there, eventaully it will be resolved. I felt that frustration as well.

Best of luck and best wishes

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Hi all. Do you all know if TBON look at juvenile misdemeanors more lightly? I have a total of five misdemeanors that are around 10 years old when I was juvenile.

TBON uses L-1 Identity to conduct their fingerprinting background check. If I pay extra for the personal review, will it list everything that TBON will be see on my background? If not, which background checking company would be best to get my full rap sheet?

Also, if a declaratory orders goes to enforcement, can you add any additional information to it later down the time line? I'm planning on submitting my declaratory order first, then petition to have my juvenile records sealed.

Thanks!

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Finally got a TBON RN number, praise GOD!! Thanks for going through this with me... Will continue to check in and on you all.. Hope all ends soon..

congrats!!! still waiting on mines

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I was officially cleared today and also received my ATT! It took exactly 3 weeks from the time I mailed my $150 to Enforcement. For those of you with a similar situation as mine, it CAN happen fast!

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Congrats LibertyTX!!!

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Specializes in Hem/Onc.

I received my letter saying that I must do a chemical dependency evaluation August 17. My appointment is on Thursday, how long after that will it be until someone is cleared? I am positive I will get cleared.

Congrats LibertyTX by the way!

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Hey all,

My application was forwarded to the TX BON enforcement dptmt the end of may 2012 and I'm still waiting to hear something. My offenses are a DUI that was dropped and a resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. I've called the enforcement dptmt and they always tell me to allow the 4-6 months time frame to go through before they can tell me something, so my 4 months will the sept 30 and I will def be giving them a call then.... It's has been a hard and frustrating journey and I am really Hoping4dbest. God Bless

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Did you ever get a response on your question? I'm in the same exact boat.

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Hi All, I am extremely upset because I have just received a letter in the mail today stating that my case is being transferred to the enforcement department :( I have been reading how long this process can take and was wondering if anyone had any words of encouragement or any advice. I am taking my final exam tomorrow and walking across the stage in 2 days.

I was arrested earlier this year in april because I was in a very abusive relationship. He said that if I left him he was going to call the cops on me and make up a story that I hit him (which never happened). I was basically arrested for no reason and all because he made up some story. He was arrested too btw because he broke my hand. I can't believe this is happening to me after everything I have been through and have overcome.

If anybody is going through the similiar situation or has been cleared because of something like this PLEASE tell me how it went for you. It is going to be so hard to take my final exam tomorrow knowing that I will have to wait probably 6 m to a year to get a job :(

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