So, i have been processing for a part time job at NSA for a year or so now. I already have a clearance and am working now for another organization.
Well today, i received a call from Personnel Security at NSA and they asked me to confirm my email so that they could send me my processing results for the part time job. They also confirmed my address.
They told me that the other entity involved is like a month behind and that they haven’t received the paperwork yet but will email me them when they do.
I asked “is this standard?” because i have been in the IC for 20 years and have never had anyone ask to send me my security processing results even when i contracted with them before.
They answered, “yes, it’s just common practice”.
After they sent the test email to confirm my email address, i responded with a question. I asked “if they knew if my processing was positive, negative or if they even knew at all because they hadn’t seen the paperwork”. They just responded with the same thing about the backlog and that they will send me the paperwork when they get them. I don’t think they knew one way or another.
Have any of you had this happen before? Is this a new practice?
Sounds to me like an SOR but since they also said there was a backlog, then it would be very surprising if there was that many SOR to send out. I have heard nothing from the actual company i was processing with. Just seems strange to me that the actual agency is coming directly to me instead of the Company SSO one way or another.
I had a similar experience some years back when I was a contractor. It was the NSA adjudicator reaching out for more info. Not sure if that is the “processing results” but who knows. 
By this point, I think you have realized that government does not follow their own rules. I have had the government come to me directly even though I was contracting, so I have heard of this happening. What NSA told you is…bizarre and that is most certainty not “common practice.” Do you know what other “entity” they are referring to. NSA does its own adjudications and has a team of their own adjudicators. So whatever other “entity” they are referring to is puzzling.
I guess I would have to answer your question with another question. What is in your background that you would think would cause you to get a SOR?
Thanks for response. By entity, i mean some other part of NSA. which is also weird given that I believe Personnel security is department that deals with adjudications and such. Not sure why it would take another 3 weeks or so and or why there would be a back log on that end if my results are already in.
With regard to SOR, i was given an SOR a few years ago by CIA for very minor issues not security related; Getting written up at a non IC job years back and sharing explicit pics with a girl i was seeing in 2018. I’ve never had a security violation. I am now well past the point where i can reapply to CIA which was a year.
yeah, i’ve never had this happen. I figure with this new “cleared candidates list thing” this could be something new but i have nio idea. I passed my poly from what i was told. Never heard anything else on psych eval etc…
With regard to the “other entity” I have no idea but can offer this somewhat dated tale: One time many years ago (contracting for an agency not so far away) I had to schedule a polygraph.
I discovered that there are at least three “entities” involved:
- The office that decides you need a polygraph
- The office that schedules the polygraph
- The office that actually conducts the poly
None of these offices have any insight (or so they say) into the activities of the others.
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