Security Clearance Process

[Guest]

What does the process look like? I understand there is a high level of intrusiveness involved, but was it relatively painless? What about for those of you who have had to relocate a lot throughout your life?

[GuestWhoItis]

Just went over everything in the SF 86 form. EVERYTHING. Took about two hours and it was relatively painless. SMART didn't tell them ahead of time I was a part of the program so that was interesting.

[Guest]

Awesome! What level of clearance are we getting and was the document the only thing you had to do? Were there any interviews?

[Guest]

Awesome! What level of clearance are we getting and was the document the only thing you had to do? Were there any interviews?

Re: Level of Clearance

Fellow candidate here. I believe I read that the default is Secret unless your SF needs you to have a higher one. Like, if you're working with nukes or something.

[Bigbym]

[*]I am not a recipient of this scholarship (yet! Hopefully). I do have a clearance though. The process is *relatively* painless. You will have an interview and contact with your interviewer for a few weeks. They will do a thourough check of everyone you put on your clearance packet. DO NOT LIE. I repeat, DO NOT LIE. They will find out. I have a TS//SCI and mine took about 6-8 months to get approved. Though I cannot guarantee that yours will go that quickly. I was in the military when I received mine so I do not know if that is different than the civilian process. I can't imagine it would be very different.

[Guest]

[*]I am not a recipient of this scholarship (yet! Hopefully). I do have a clearance though. The process is *relatively* painless. You will have an interview and contact with your interviewer for a few weeks. They will do a thourough check of everyone you put on your clearance packet. DO NOT LIE. I repeat, DO NOT LIE. They will find out. I have a TS//SCI and mine took about 6-8 months to get approved. Though I cannot guarantee that yours will go that quickly. I was in the military when I received mine so I do not know if that is different than the civilian process. I can't imagine it would be very different.

Baskin-Robbins always finds out...

[Guest0101]

I was never contacted by anyone, and I asked all my friends and family and none of them were contacted either. I recently received an email stating that I had been granted secret eligibility and I just had to watch some video about security clearances. It depends on your background I guess. I have friends who obtained clearances, and them, their family and basically anyone they ever looked at were interviewed.