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NBIB Director Outlines Major Focuses for Background Investigations
In a recent interview with Security Management (ASIS Online), Charlie Phalen, Director of the National Background Investigations Bureau, outlined the challenges NBIB inherited from OPM’s Federal Investigative Services and what the focus is going forward. Phalen stated “there were two big main focuses. One is, there is this backlog of
Failure to Report Foreign Contacts Gets State Department Employee in Hot Water
There has been much discussion about what constitutes a foreign national contact when filling out the SF-86 or what the reporting requirements are under continuous evaluation. Opinions are diverse and open to a matter of interpretation. However, a State Department employee who had a Top Secret security clearance went a
It says it in the SOR.
In your response to the SOR, you need to specify that you want to have all documents that were relied upon used to adjudicate your clearance. These documents will come…
naughtypetey: It seems like a waste of time and money to do the entire BI and poly and then just leave the applicant’s case file like a hung jury. I…
Yeah, they sent me all the documents they say they used. I never sent the VA documents. When i asked if they wanted them from me, they said no, we…