After you complete your courses, your official “proof of completion” documents and exams are forwarded to the Firearms Safety Education Service (FSESO) within 5 business days for review and Chief Firearms Officers acknowledgement. The documents are then mailed to you in a self addressed envelope from the FSESO in approximately 5 weeks time. Once received by you, it is up to you to forward your firearms licence application, complete with photograph and proof of training to the RCMP Central Processing Site (CPS) in Miramichi, New Brunswick as quickly as possible. Once your application is received and data entered at the CPS, you are subject to a mandatory 28-day waiting period before your licence is printed and mailed to you. In all, the process takes about 3 months from start to finish.