Anyone ever do this route? I found a job that only requires a CI poly though I have an FSP. If I work this job for more than 2 years, is it true that I:
A. Will lose my FSP?
B. If so, How easy is it to reactivate it, if at all?
Recruiters are ruthless and truth seems to not necessarily be as important as reaching recruitment goals. I have heard everything from," it will be so fast and easy to reactivate the FSP" to “I will have to start from scratch” to even, “I don’t lose it at all even if I took a role that required neither a CI or an FSP”.
I searched the forums but the closest question I found was: Losing FSP with job that doesn’t require it
And unfortunately, I don’t have an FSO friend I can ask.
Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.
I think that if you are continuously briefed/in access while not in a position requiring the FSP it will be more likely you will be able to go right back to a position that requires it.
You will also probably have better luck going back to the customer that originally sponsored that polygraph.
Note that even when people have the full scope (or extended scope or whatever they call the not-just-the-CI-questions polygraph), when they go back they usually only have to do the CI part.
Those are my thoughts. 
@sbusquirrel Thank you so much for your insight! How about this as a wrinkle? What if the CI job is with another customer in a database that used reciprocity with the original clearance eligibility? Will being in access there translate back to the original customer who sponsored the FSP(extended scope) or does that make trying to transition back to a FSP(extend scope) position with the original customer take that much longer?
I am wondering if the looming headache is worth taking the break from traffic or if I am basically just putting off the suffering rather than mitigating it.
Like I say, my best guess is that if you remain in an active status it will help you get back to the other job. If they share the same database, so much the better.
Just don’t take any trips to Iran or Cuba, and hold off on marrying your Russian sweetheart 
Those are the kind of things that might complicate matters.
And as I also say, this is my opinion/best guess/wild guess based on years bouncing around this curious world.
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HAHA, I put the mail order bride on hold and rescheduled the Cuban cruise.
This world is so weird. I wish there was a way to just look up the rules like an Army Regulation or something. Rules change with little fanfare, personalities can have outsized effects, and there are so many black boxes…
Thanks for the responses!