SCI Denial Next Steps

SECURITY CLEARANCE Q&A
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Hi CJB Friends,

I have been a long-time lurker here and have gotten a lot of reassurance during my clearance process. I’m in a situation I haven’t seen covered on any of the forums I have searched, so I was hoping to get some clarity. I accepted a CJO with an IC agency and they started work on my clearance. Towards the end of the process, I received a job offer from a contractor willing to sponsor me for the same clearance level. I explained to them that I was already in process with the IC agency and was nearing the end so there was no reason to start another investigation. However, about a month ago, I received a document that said after an adjudicative review of information from my case “it may preclude me from being granted access to Sensitive Compartmented Information”. They mentioned that under personal conduct they decided to flag my clearance application, and I decided not to appeal it and withdrew. About a week later the contracting company asked if I was still interested in the position and said, “Looks like your clearance process is going well and you got your TS we are just waiting on the SCI”. I know that the IC agency isn’t going to finish off the SCI since I withdrew my application. Should I explain my situation to the FSO and try to get my SCI sponsored through the contractor? Should I wait till it reflects in DISS instead and ask then? Will the SCI cause the TS to nullify and should I give up and move on?

Thank you.

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That wording is kinda weird but as the man said, it is what it is.

Sometimes an agency will clear a contractor that they might not clear as a staff hire. I’d let the contractor job application process continue, you may still get the SCI on the contractor side.

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Thanks for posting that. But it was not exactly a denial? Maybe you were right to withdraw before it got to the official denial phase.

I was at a contractor where I worked on a job that was at the secret level, but the follow-on contract was going to require SCI access. Some people had issues getting that clearance, and our FSO somehow got the word or just knew that there was going to be a denial and she advised folks to withdraw before the formal denial notification came.

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I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a letter like that. Anyone else seen this?

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You “may” get cleared for SCI from another agency, say you applied with CIA and then went DOD. BUT, and this is just an assumption, If this is your first clearance, then it may preclude you. Don’t tell the contractor anything, if they want to proceed, let them. They may not ever hear anything about your withdrawal.

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