Jan "24 I had just accepted a new offer with the prospective employer and then gave the company I was working for at the time my 2-weeks. The company that I had accept a new offer with started clearance crossover after I had put in the notice. TS was fully verified in Diss before clearance crossover started and then 3 days letter LOJ shows on the clearance. My FSO has put in expedited. CSR’s multiple times to try to get the issue rectified. Even checked my record to see if there were any negative things that could impact the clearance or delay the process nothing was found. All we know to date is that it is waiting to be adjudicated. We have been waiting for three weeks now and it has affected my ability to work in the cleared space currently. The question I have is how long does it take to adjudicate something like this or expected wait time.
If you haven’t done so already, do a search on here for “Loss of Jurisdiction” or even just LOJ and you will see this is not a situation you want to be in. Hopefully in your case it just means the previous employer was a little too enthusiastic in updating your record (used to be some employers never got around to this) and it will clear up quickly… but one never knows when it comes to LOJ.
Yes i even put in a congressional inquiry. I just want to get back to work and be able to provide for the family. They say it in progress to be readjudicated
This begs the questions: why is your eligibility being adjudicated and why was your eligibility changed to LOJ. Technically this is not a crossover. It’s just a change in the owning relationship of your DISS record, which seems to have occurred in a timely manner. Unless your previous employer submitted an Incident Report, there’s no reason to change your status to LOJ or adjudicate your eligibility.
It was adjudicated. Good to go now
Are contractors scared of loss of jurisdiction (LOJ) status?!
Warning, this is basically a rant.
Many of these contractors only want candidates with active clearances who can start immediately rather than wait for a non-cleared candidate to be cleared. But, there are people in the middle, sort of a gray area. These people have clearances that have a LOJ status (without the dreaded Incident Report attached, which is a bigger issue). Just to inform those who don’t know, LOJ without an incident report happens when you leave a job or your job gets cancelled for an administrative reason (not security related) during the investigation. In this case, there is no wrong-doing on the part of the applicant, just bad timing. Generally, LOJ status is within that two-year mark where your clearance can be adjudicated without a new full investigation.
It appears contractors are too dumb or lazy to realize that if they sponsor LOJ candidates, their clearances can get adjudicated and become active in some time-frame between actively-cleared and non-cleared candidates. All contractors have to do is submit a customer service request (CSR) or something similar to adjudicate LOJ candidates.
It could take a contractor just as long to find their dream actively cleared candidate as it would to bring on a LOJ candidate. Why are contractors so scared of LOJ?
In my opinion:
- Not fully understanding the system - HR and Security never seem to really exchange much information
- Risk aversion. They’d rather pick up someone currently in an active status working for another contractor.