Transportation Security Administration

Here is where you get your T.W.I.C. It stands for Transportation Worker Identification Credential. The TWIC is an identification card for all personnel requiring unescorted access to secure areas of Marine Transit Security Act regulated facilities and vessels and other sensitive areas like refineries.
There were small snags when TWIC came out where some people were not getting their cards for months and still a lot of others getting faulty twic cards that had to be reissued but they have since fixed this.
Around the beginning of August I was able to get mine verified and processed in about one week so things are not so bad at this time.
Parking is ample since the building is situated in the middle of a lot where it is surrounded and if you are lucky can find a shade one one side of the building or trees that are there on hot summer days.
Once you take the elevator to the third floor you go down the hallway where the arrows point you. Toward the end of the hallway before it turns right you will enter the door on the left. From there if you are lucky and land the right timing you will get to a desk where you will proceed to show the person at the desk your Government or State issued I.D. card and social security card.
Most important if you were NOT born in the USA you will be requested to show another form of document like your passport, naturalization papers and such. After this you pay the person in Cashier’s check or Money order for $ 129.75 and then fill out the information requested on a clipboard that they will hand to you.
After handing the desk person the clipboard you wait in the waiting room that probably holds about 25 or so people. There probably isn’t an over flow since you make an actual appointment online to come in and get this done. When you are called up again you are taken to the back room where you are shortly interviewed a few questions.
During this process you will have your index fingers printed as well as both thumbs, a photo snapped of you and you are released on your way with the anxiety that you hope everything goes by quickly where you are notified when your card is approved.
The personnel here are not rude, actually I remember pleasant, would be nice if downtown Houston courts and offices could model after these folks as well as the folks over at the Safety Council building but oh well.