I would like to know what the start and stop points are for those timelines… I doubt very much that it starts when the applicant submits the eQIP and I doubt that the end date is when their security manager receives a notice in JPAS that the individual is eligible to be granted access.
Take that 56 days for a secret… that’s two months… stick two weeks on both ends you get three months, and that’s a pretty fast secret timeline as measured by the person waiting to be cleared.
(Actually I guess for the person waiting, six months still seems like an eternity 
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