No. 28 days is the minimum time they are allowed by law to issue RPAL (i think the max is a year) but a PAL doesn't have this minimum wait period. From what I've been hearing not too many people get the 28 day minimum anymore I did last summer it was issued 28 days after the registered mail was received. My girl on the other had was mailed in the same envelope and it took 8 months of "everything is fine we are just doing final checks"