There is a principle investigator but you misunderstand their role. They ensure everything that needs coverage has been “scheduled” for coverage prior to transmitting all of THEIR items. After they transmit THEIR items, they no longer have access to the case unless they made a mistake and have the case sent back to them from review. They SCHEDULE the coverage, they don’t check back to see how the coverage ended up, that’s the reviewer. After ALL items from ALL investigators have been transmitted then the REVIEWER will ensure that ALL coverage has been met and if anything is missing then whichever investigator who should have obtained that coverage gets notified that they are missing coverage. That is not necessarily the “principle” investigator, as you labeled them.
Hope this helps you as these timeline posts have definitely helped me!! My timeline so far for TS/SCI.
Applied - Nov 2021
CJO - March 2022
E-Quip submitted - March 2022
Soft credit check- August 2022
Met with investigator - late November 2022 ( investigator mentioned that 90% investigation is done)
References/ Manager contacted - early December 2022
Poly/Psych - early February 2023
Waiting in adjudication since then I guess
Born outside US, foreign contacts & foreign travel.
Hey how do you know that you got soft credit check?
I saw it on my full credit report. Since it’s a soft credit check it won’t be shown on your credit karma or other credit score websites that we normally use.
Do you know what the waiting period is for those mail inquiries? I’m at 139 days for a secret. They got sent out on day 1. A poster above said about 4 months for the waiting period, but I checked with a former supervisor and he hasn’t heard anything from anyone. He didn’t get a mailer since he’s no longer employed by my former company.
Your old supervisor may or may not be contacted.
And for the mail enquiries, HR would get them, not your old boss.
You’re 4 months in the process, just be patient for a few more months…
That’s incorrect. My current employer and a previous employer had a mailer sent to HR and my previous supervisor.
And it’s difficult to keep waiting when I’ve seen several TS applications get fully investigated and adjudicated when they submitted their SF86 AFTER mine. Mine is just a secret. I still haven’t even made it to adjudication yet.
I’m not saying this necessarily applies to any of you, but sometimes your investigator just sucks. Sometimes they don’t know what they are doing or simply don’t care and they may get the case sent back to them multiple time for additional coverage or an investigator may quit in the middle of an investigation and the case has to get reassigned. Crap happens. Who knows. It sucks, but it’s life, and unfortunately, it is completely normal government operations.
Also, none of y’all have taken into account priority levels. Yep, you heard me right. Not all of your clearances are as important as others. So some of you fill out your paperwork and it sits on the back burner while higher priority cases are rushed through the process. No, I will not elaborate on the process of determining priority levels. But the government wants some of you quicker than others, sorry to hurt feelings, just facts.
If everybody’s clearance comes from DoD contractors, who could get the higher priority to be processed than others? I heard security clearance for government contractors don’t have “priority handling” services. In this sense, the priority for everybody’s cases should be on the same level, if it is all T3 tier processing. That is, first in first serve.
This helps a lot, question is this for a 3 letter agency or else the armed forces?
That would be incorrect information.
Only tier 2, tier 4, and tier 5 have expedited processing officially with the DCSA (i.e. the sponsoring agency can pay for expidited processing) is what they are saying. So tier 3 is first come first serve.
@fsi1212 Are you an investigator now? On the other threads you seemed pretty confused. Weird that you’re challenging me now. Oh well, I told y’all how it works. Believe it, or don’t.
Sep 22: SF86 submitted
Oct 22: Credit Pull
Nov 22: Background Interview
Nov 22: Medical and Poly
Dec 22: All References Interviewed
Jan 23 onwards: (presumed to be in adjudication, based on the background investigator completing their portion and submitting my case to someone else)
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Still waiting. No calls, no emails yet.
It’s my family that’s the most anxious about why it’s taking so long. I’m using the downtime to get myself in shape and catch up on some hobbies.
How did you find out it has been sent to adjudication?
Tell your family your clearance is a long way from taking a long time! This is the real world, not the fantasy world of official timelines posted on agency websites.
Your case does not go from investigation to adjudication. Your case goes from investigation to review. Investigation releases the case to review with the contracting company who has to approve the case and release it to the review department with the government (DCSA, DHS, whoever the customer is) then the government review department has to release the investigation to adjudication. At any one of those steps the case can be sent back to investigation to obtain additional information and the process can start again and have to go back through all departments.
Question, do we get any status updates on the CESP portal or else we are in the dark. Has anyone tried expediting the case, when asked to the recruiter they told its the discretion of the security team. Which i think is BS, as how will security decide which clearance is more important?
How does one to get to know as to when I would be contacted by a background investigator?
Does it vary from state to state?
At the investigation close date, does it mean the investigation is forwarded to adjudication or review department?