JAA to FAA

[flyasthesky]

Hello everyone, hope this is the right place to put this question. I've sent away for my FAA licence around the last week of September of this year, Sent my letter to the U.K CAA and my application along with my licence copy and medical to the FAA in the states. This was all through fax as I thought it would speed the process up. I've heard people say it can take 6-8 weeks however I thought it was strange that I never got any confirmation that my application is being processed or has been received, is this normal?
Thanks for your time and sorry if this has been asked before.

[drogue chute]

Flyasthesky... I had the same thing happen to me - I was waiting to do my FAA CPL checkride in the US based on my UK PPL, my only hold up being that I was waiting for license verification to come through.
I eventually rang the FAA to be told that they had requested the info from the UK CAA and recieved no reply from them... 2 months before. After a lot of frustrating calls to the CAA I discovered that they had recieved my payment and permision letter to them and promptly filed my paperwork. This meant that when the FAA wrote to them a week or 2 later, my paperwork was in a file somewhere and nobody bothered to look for it.
After a lot more shouting etc. my Dad (I was sitting in the US at the time and he did the chasing on my behalf to save me the hours on hold on the telephone) managed to get them to expedite the whole thing through and I recieved an apologetic phone call from someone in the CAA over the whole debacle.

I recomend you ring them to see what's happening!

[flyasthesky]

Thank you for the replies guys. I paid the CAA the relevant fee, sent away my credit card details so they could debit my card etc. I nominated the Orlando FSDO as well. I suspected this wasn't the norm. Oh the joys of ringing the CAA and trying to get information, I'm look forward to it already. Thanks for the replies again.