# Last 3 years only residence verifiers
**URL:** https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/last-3-years-only-residence-verifiers/6202
**Category:** SECURITY CLEARANCE Q&A
**Created:** [February 24, 2019, 2:19am UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/last-3-years-only-residence-verifiers/6202 "2019-02-24T02:19:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@COUSP](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/u/COUSP)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2019, 2:19am UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/last-3-years-only-residence-verifiers/6202/1 "2019-02-24T02:19:33Z")
Just curious as to why the SF86 is only interested in me providing only the last 3 years of residence verifiers, but the form asks for the last 10 years of residences? Why wouldn’t the investigator be interested in going beyond the 3 years of residence and those verifiers?
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### Author:  [@backgdinvestigator](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/u/backgdinvestigator)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2019, 8:41pm UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/last-3-years-only-residence-verifiers/6202/2 "2019-02-24T20:41:23Z")
Because we do more than just talk to neighbors using the information from the residences.
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### Author:  [@amberbunny](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/u/amberbunny)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2019, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/last-3-years-only-residence-verifiers/6202/3 "2019-02-25T16:26:10Z")
I’ll defer to BI on that one, but food for thought, today’s mobile society may make it difficult to have neighbors who actually remember a guy more than 3 years ago particularly around military bases or where neighbors are just wave and say hello types.
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### Author:  [@Ceedeem](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/u/Ceedeem)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2019, 11:37pm UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/last-3-years-only-residence-verifiers/6202/4 "2019-02-25T23:37:38Z")
It’s because people move and regarding the investigation, only most recent neighbors are contacted.
Food for thought, not many people even interact with neighbors especially in apartment complexes.
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### Author:  [@backgdinvestigator](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/u/backgdinvestigator)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2019, 3:53am UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/last-3-years-only-residence-verifiers/6202/5 "2019-02-28T03:53:46Z")
I can’t really explain some of the methods with the madness (and I am not sure many would grasp the meaning of the madness), but there really are reasons for the questions and timelines.