Hi all! So… long story, short, my previous employer was sponsoring my clearance; however, after 2 years and still being in the queue, the employer decided to desponsor me to free up slots to clear/transfer other folks. Luckily, I was able to find another position right away and this company was able to pick it up.
I had filled out my SF86, March 2019, had the interview done, December 2019, then silent after that and thanks to COVID, it was delayed. Now, my current company was able to pick it up but I had to refill my SF86 and am considered a single track now. What does that all mean? Since I refilled my SF86, will I be interviewed again? Did I go backwards in the process? I also hear that single tracks are lowest priority. I was submitted on a contract as a software engineer so would that help any? Any information will help.
This is what I think it means based on experience with a place that I used to work: “double track” is you put someone in for the TS only first, then once that is done, put them in for the SCI. The place I was working at the time did this for a while because it was going faster that way. “Single track” is putting you in for TS/SCI right from the start.
After a time they (the company) realized that there was no difference so they did the single track just to save paperwork. Other than that I never heard of a priority difference.
Will you be interviewed again? I would hope not but it has been over a year. Guess it depends on a lot of things but I don’t think it will slow things down all that much even if you do have to be interviewed again.
I appreciate this! I just have no idea what to expect and am scared to hear if a “single track” could potentially set me back. I’ve already been waiting since 2019.
FYI – the fact is Dual Track is the fastest path to obtaining TS/SCI. Single Track generally is, at a minimum, 3 years.
This may happen when your clearance processing is de-sponsored for whatever reason. Usually it’s because the position is defunded or the contract is awarded to a new prime after a re-compete. (Larger programs usually are allocate a few clearance sponsorship “pipeline” positions, so there really isn’t the concept of “freeing up space” by releasing you – that would be more or less just restarting the whole workflow with a new candidate)
in any case, after being de-sponsored, once you are back in processing, you’re likely going to be in the Single Track process at that point, which, unfortunately are the lowest priority.
I was submitted on a contract as a software engineer so would that help any? Any information will help.
