I hope everyone is doing well. I have TS/SCI + FSP eligibility granted from NSA last year, although I never EOD’d. I just signed an offer with a contractor for the CIA, and I was told that it may take 2 months for the clearance crossover. Does this sound right? I was hoping that it would be sooner than that. However, I heard some people talk about crossovers taking 6 months or longer. If that is the case, I would begin to worry about my eligibility expiring sometime in November. I’m just curious if anyone here experienced a similar crossover and what timeline I should expect for that process to finish. Thank you all
When it comes to CIA, all bets are off.
If this is for a position not on site with no access to the CIA network, it could go quickly. If it is for an on-site position with “staff like access” then it could take much longer, maybe more than six months.
At least you’re in the game!
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Thanks for the response. I didn’t think of that difference. This position is not on site. In that case, by quickly, do you mean a couple of weeks, months, or less than 6 months? I understand it’s only an estimate anyway. I’m mainly curious because I will have to relocate for this job, and I need to time my move well
Could be a couple weeks but hard to predict for sure. Makes it tough having to plan a move with this kind of uncertainty.
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So…this I say with certainty…no 3 letter agency believes any other 3 letter agency does clearances properly. Oddly, if you came in with a DoD clearance for a fully cleared position with staff like access…I routinely crossed people over in 72 hours. Those from other agencies? Took quite a while. Having attended their 3 day Industrial Security conference the chief of their clearance division briefed some really big boo boo stories.
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