Iacra
 

How long does it usually take to receive a new certificate when using the FAA's web based IACRA as opposed to the old-fashioned paper sent in by the DPE? I would have hoped that this would have sped up the system...but it doesn't seem so..I have been waiting since Nov 1.

I've seen it take as little as a month, and as long as 119 days.

Same difference...........In the name of government efficiency, it didn't improve anything hardly at all. It took well into 90+ days before I got my ATP. Actually when I renewed my CFI @ the FSDO it took just as long too. Go figure!

They should take a lesson from another govt agency...the
FCC....Renewed my ham license online recently and got the new certificate in the mail about 4 days later...I was astonished to say the least.....

IACRA doesn't speed anything up. In fact, it slows down the filling out the paper work process. I can whip up an 8710 paper form faster than I can figure out all the IACRA stuff.

If you take a look at this page (on the very top, without clicking anything). You can see from what time they are processing the plastic:
Airmen Certification

Like "We are currently processing permanent Airmen Certificates for temporary certificates that were issued approximately November 10, 2008".
So, I hope to be getting my MEI plastic soon :p

I think it depends on the time of year it was submitted; my longest wait was about 100 days.

You can call airmen registry and find out.

Here is something interesting.

I passed my comm multi beginning of October then my CFI beginning of December. I was expecting my Comm multi a few months after the checkride and my CFI a few months after that checkride.

Interestingly enough, they both arrived on the same day! I guess when my multi paperwork came up, they just did both my multi and CFI on the same day.

Finally!
 

finally got the plastic today!....100 days after. Boy, ain't IACRA great! Such efficiency....its almost like FEMA took over.