So apparently I have a waiver showing up on my sf86 and I’m not sure why. I have parents with dual citizenship because they were born in another country and I also had a card that certified citizenship with another country that was granted many years ago but had an expiration date and it already expired so I’m not sure what it is and they can’t really tell me so I don’t know how I can find out when I’m applying for jobs. I was already granted a TS and I have been read on SCI and I’m polygraphed so I don’t know. I’m not even sure why it’s a No-No if I was granted all of this. Obviously I was trusted by the government so my mind is boggled. But I’d like to know what the waiver is for or why is it showing up on my sf86. How would I be able to find that out because my clearance was granted some years ago. It’s not expired yet. My issue is that I’m wondering if this could be why I’m not selected for some jobs that I am applying to. Oh by the way, all of my immediate family are either naturalized citizens or born in the US And I never had a relationship with a foreign national and I only have a few relatives who live abroad and I don’t really talk to them all the time but they are still listed on my SF 86.
Waivers are not posted to your SF86; they are posted to your clearance database record. Since you indicated SCI eligibility, you should have a Scattered Castles record. Depending on the agency that granted the TS and SCI, you may have a record in another clearance database. Having a clearance with a waiver can affect “reciprocity” (see SEAD 7), which will limit your ability to move from one employer to another and maintain eligibility for access. You should do a Privacy Act request to ODNI for you Scattered Castles record and a Privacy Act request to the agency(s) that granted your TS and SCI for your adjudicative files. Those records should explain what the waiver was for.
Are waivers the same as “conditions” in Scattered Castles?
Waivers are not the same as conditions. There are 4 types of “exceptions” listed at SEAD 4, Appendix C: Waivers, Deviations, Conditions, and Out-of-Scope. ICD 704 also mentions “waivers,” but not conditions, deviations, or out-of-scope. The ICD 704 waivers pertain only to close foreign contacts.
Thanks for response. On my Scattered Castles record, it shows something redacted on the “conditions” portion. Are conditions something that you have to be made aware of like to sign attestation that you will abide by it or lose clearance, or is it just something generic? Also, why would that even be redacted?
Typical conditions are 1) continue making payments on debts as agreed, 2) continue treatment for a mental health or aftercare for a substance abuse, 3) provide proof of fulfilling conditions. So, yes you would have to be informed of the conditions. Did your case ever involve a close relationship with a foreign national that you were asked to discontinue? Otherwise, without looking at your entire investigative file, I wouldn’t be able to even guess at why something in you SC record was redacted.
Thanks for response. No, nothing about foreign nationals nor nothing that was ever brought to my attention. I think it was CIA that redacted whatever was in there. I only noticed it recently. I found it strange that i was never let know what they were and even more strange is why they would even need to be redacted.