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Tips for Filling out Employment Activities on the SF-86
There are lots of questions on this site from security clearance applicants regarding what or how to list employment activities in Section 13A on the SF-86. The more accurate and thorough you are, the easier it is for investigators and records custodians to verify the information and check the block.
Periodic Reinvestigation Deferment Process
Back in June of 2018 the Director of National Intelligence and the Office of Personnel Management issued a joint memorandum that outlined using a deferment process in background reinvestigations as one of the methods implemented to cut into the huge backlog. The Defense Security Service (DSS) Vetting Risk Operations Center
Was your Investigator DCSA or a CACI/Peraton/other contractor? This is sus based on the training I had. It could be a difference in policy or a lazy FI that didn’t…
I see. So the Investigator’s report is not the same as the actual interviews in the SSBI?
DCSA civilian. Their email has a .civ[@]mail.mil suffix. They seemed very sure of themselves, but yeah, fully possible they didn’t get properly trained. They did mention affidavits used to be…
bebe 1979: All the investigative interviews and record checks are chronicled in the investigative report, whether they are done by field investigators, letter inquiry, or computer linkage. If you’ve had…