Hi fftb,
First of all congratulations for passing your fpgee.
In my opinion, you should wait for your FPGEE Certificate. It will just take one and half month to get the certificate. In the mean time, you prepared all your documents needed for intern license and once you get your fpgee, you appliled for Intern license in CA board.
Even you applied rightnow, without certificate, you will not get the license so why don't you just wait for certificate and then apply for intern license.
Actually, I did not get my intern license yet. I got my H1B this year. So I am waiting for my SSN. Once I get the work permit and SSN, I will apply for my Intern License. Right now, I have deficiency letter from CA board that I do not have SSN and so they cannot issue me the Intern license.
Good luck:tup: