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Background Investigations

There are different types of federal background investigations and matching adjudicative criteria used to make favorable or unfavorable determinations. Depending on the purpose and level of the investigation, adjudicators are trained to apply the correct adjudicative criteria to each case. Here are the different types of adjudicative determinations: National Security

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Security Clearance Denial

Anyone who has filled out a Questionnaire for National Security Positions (SF-86) is familiar with the section where you must list all previous employments in the past seven years and why you left. It is pretty straightforward and branching questions ask about being fired, leaving employment under mutual agreement after being told

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Adjudication

The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency’s Vetting Risk Operations Center (VROC) reported as of June 2019  they have enrolled around 1,347,000 security clearance holders into their Continuous Evaluation…
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Most states have laws where if you feel threatened - and are in fear of injury or death - you may use deadly force to…
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When reading through case summaries and Report of Investigations (ROI), I always look for what a security clearance applicant’s motivation was for committing a crime,…