Thread: Time taken to get assigned the "unique ID number" for Firearms safety course

Hi,

My son has applied for his first firearms licence and is wanting to get it as soon as possible. I wanted him to attend the Firearms Safety Course in early July, but, he advises me that he has not received the unique ID number to book it. I assumed that this would be automatically sent as soon as the payment was made (mid June), but, he says that he has not received any code.
Does anyone know, is this a manual thing that gets sent out after some processing, or, should it have been sent automatically with once payment was made? My understanding was that the referee checks etc were only made after passing the firearms safety course so would have expected to be able to book the safety course immediately.