Why is there such a long wait for reserve component officer and warrant federal recognition/promotion?

Day 239...P03-17 is at Sec Def finally.

U02-17 Published: SO# 82; 2017-04-20, so for my prospective I was on top of getting my promotion as I'm not a young Soldier and in a time crunch. My packet went to State 120 days out 28 Jun 16, I had my FED REC board in July sometime, my packet went to NGB on 1 Aug 16, Waiting assignment to the scrolls on 5 Sep 16, and waiting acceptance to the scrolls on 18 Sep 16. My State promotion was cut 28 Oct 16, DOR +5 years, and started tracking days on 10 Nov 16. 162 days scroll days and 298 total days later I have just received my 12th and last promotion for my long military career. Would any of this helped in the last administration? Don't know. All I can share is stay on top of your career, nobody takes care of you better than you.

I actually had almost the exact same experience for my 2LT to 1LT. It took 7 months after I received my State orders before I was put on a scroll, but they spelled my name wrong (or messed up something?) so I was moved to the next scroll 3 months later. It's now been 13 months and I've finally hit 122 days in the DoD Approval Cycle and it finally turned red. My peers received their promotion within 2 weeks of that so hopefully you're not too far away!

New Update: As expected, my scroll went over 120 days in cycle and the status bar turned to red. As we've seen before, that seems to be the max time these things are supposed to be in the process.

My husband is on scroll P01-17 which as of 1/18/17 is at "98 days/OTJAG." Selected for promotion by the State in February 2016, working in slot since 6/1/16, packet at NGB since around 6/20/16. It's hard for him to break from his civilian job to check on this so I talked to Ms. Renee Marshall in the NGB Fed Rec office today (her number can be found on GKO). She explained that even though the Gateway tracker "should" be updated every 2 weeks, prior to 1/13/17, her office had not received an update since November! So....even though it appears that the scroll just moved to the JAG office this week, it could have already been there since November/December. She said the average time at the JAG office ranges from 45-60 days and is the longest stop in the process. She also stated that there is a possibility that the scroll could have moved out of the JAG office in the last couple of days but we won't know that until the next update gets posted. Overall, she said the process usually takes 6-9 months from the time the packet is received at NGB, so "hopefully" this will be finished by March. I know this is a very frustrating process, but I hope this info helps. Good luck and congratulations to all on their promotions!

FYSA: I spoke with a woman by the name of Renne Marshall who is the "SME" on the FED REC / Packet status at NGB. Her phone# is [login to see] ....she was extremely helpful & gave me a realistic time frame for when my scroll would be published. I recommend giving her a call if your wondering where the heck your scroll is at!

Its been a week since our last update. Hopefully they push out something by the end of the day

because the packets go into an in box on someone's desk at G1 and they sit there until they have a certain number (50 is what I've been told) to process so they can do them in bulk instead of one at a time as they come in.

Update for those of us on U01-19. Orders have been published; check iPerms. I can't speak for the rest but I can confirm that this particular scroll is completed.

Published: SO# 89; 2019-03-28

My DOR is 07MAR19.

Update as of yesterday: