You can become legal right away once the doctor signs the recomendation you are legal. You only have to wait for the RED card that long. They will give you temporary paper work to use until that time comes. However there is a lot of fraud going on because of the back log and the ease of just copying the paper work they give you. They already had many cases because of this and added more staff and pumped a couple more million into getting caught up. They will be processing more paper work quicker now and of course the more they do the better they get. The Department of Revenue is who handles this now if i remember correctly.

Give thanks to your husband for his service and i am sorry he is suffering so much.