After you file

@fanfare - yes, I can from my pesonal expereince.......just had a family member's amendments process in 6 months, which included the time to get the check.

 

If I can'tg assume that the backlog is 6-8 months, how can you state t is 9-12 months and 3 months for checks.  How can you state that?  

 

and it is true from the iRS's weekly postings that the backlog was 2 million in June and 800,000 now - THAT is an indication the time required to get from the end of the line to the front of the line is dropping.