Ok, to clear up the system.
You send a letter to the DOL with your evidence of residency and a copy of your paperwork proving you a legal alien. Also any required evidence of good character if needed.
Then you appear at your local Sheriff for fingerprinting and background check. The Sheriff is the one that sends this to the DOL. KCSO in particular have an issue due to some stupid internal financial efficiency that requires Background checks to be sent in order received and in a block. So if someone's background check is taking time on the same day that you filed your paperwork, its sent when the last one received that day is complete. All others will be racking up behind, and might get there the same time as the day previous, or week previous depending on the delay of one of the applications before yours.
I got mine released by banging on the door a lot. Spoke to the Records manager, and got an exception with mine, since this was an exception it could be that all KCSO AFL's are still piled up behind the two other AFL requests that were filed the same day as mine (jan 29th), it's a stupid rule.
I've tried to explain to the DOL that how they perform the completion of the AFL is not my problem but theirs, and that they must comply with the injunction, that didn't go down so well
I think they're actually screwing up, but not maliciously. They got flooded (obviously) and don't particularly like to be called on the fact that they have suppressed constitutional rights for about 4 years. My AFL is apparently in the mail (yeah like the check) it's been a week or so, I'll check my Mail box again tomorrow, my application was on the 29th, if it's not there then, then they might be getting a call from me, my lawyer, or perhaps the Judge depending on what my lawyer does.