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Offline OnTheFly

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Utah Concealed Firearm Permit Renewal Online
« on: May 06, 2013, 09:25:17 PM »
I just renewed my Utah CFP (That's what they call it) online.  It cost an additional $0.75 to process online, which is, in my opinion, well worth the extra charge.  The most difficult part of it was getting a passport style photo that meets their requirements.  For example, I had trouble finding a white background since none of the walls in my house are white.  Secondly, having to crop/shrink it to 2"x2" was a little time consuming since the software I have is not the greatest.  I ended up going to an online website that will crop the photo for you for free. 

During the process I spoke with their office regarding the photo.  I was not sure if I could just submit a photo and they would do the cropping & resizing, or if I needed to do that.  His answer was that the applicant needs to do most of that.  After selecting the image file on my computer, the webform had me do a final crop.  I also asked if there were any issues with the photo, would they let me know, and he assured me they would get it worked out.

I will try to remember to post in this thread again when it shows up so people have an idea of the turn around time.

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Re: Utah Concealed Firearm Permit Renewal Online
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2013, 10:47:15 AM »
The most difficult part of it was getting a passport style photo that meets their requirements.  For example, I had trouble finding a white background since none of the walls in my house are white.

I took a "selfie" with my cell phone camera, removed shadows on the wall in GIMP (sort of an open-source Photoshop), made some other tweaks, and then cropped and scaled to the required size. I then ordered free prints (introductory offer) from shutterfly, and sent the photos I got in with my Utah application. Worked just fine! The online system that you describe would obviously save some shipping time over my method, so it sounds like a good thing.

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Re: Utah Concealed Firearm Permit Renewal Online
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2013, 11:26:14 AM »
Concerning .....  with all the streets full of blood due to their simplified initial and renewal process......  NOT !!!