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Security Clearance Denial

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Time card fraud (or fudging) is prevalent in today’s workplace and federal agencies are cracking down on it. Don’t let your security clearance get caught in the mix.

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Adjudication

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Since getting on its feet in 2017, the VROC has received 81,260 Continuous Evaluation alerts. Here is the breakdown of the types of issues concerned:

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Call from NSA today
1060 Views
Low case loads/decrease in work
605 Views
Anxious about clearance
492 Views
TS Clearance, Lied/Omission on SF86 but came clean at interview
341 Views
Something came up in your background search for clearance
276 Views
TS with new job
169 Views
Extended Hiring Freeze - Pulse Check
4615 Views
Pay Attention to the EVER Questions on the S-86
92 Views
“The Anti-Polygraph Debate”
258 Views
Secret Eligibility
59 Views
Discussing: Call from NSA today
Vanilla_Spice22

By “sharing explicit pics with a girl I was seeing,” how long ago was this? Time is a mitigator and if this all happened 8 years ago, it should be…

bebe1979

The problem with it all is that it is the exact same issue CIA denied me for 6 yrs after the issue occurred. CIA and NSA seem to not care…

Vanilla_Spice22

If you can afford it, then I would recommend you go talk to an attorney. When consulting with my attorney, he has said that NRO, NSA, and CIA are the…

bebe1979

Yeah thanks, I’m still waiting on SOR so i can have an attorney respond.

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