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Security Clearance Denial Rates: How Often Applicants Are Actually Denied, by Guideline
The Defense Department's adjudication facility published a denial figure, and almost nobody quotes it. In fiscal 2021 the DCSA DoD Consolidated Adjudications Facility closed 836,461 cases and recorded 1,810 as "Denied Revoked": denials and revocations pooled, against a workload m… more
Failing a Polygraph and Keeping Your Job: What Actually Happens Next
In fiscal year 2002, Department of Defense examiners ran 8,512 counterintelligence-scope screening polygraphs. Of those, 267 produced a significant response, volunteered substantive information, or both. When DoD wrote the report, none of the 267 had been denied access or had acc… more
Trusted Workforce 2.0 and NBIS: What Replaced the Periodic Reinvestigation
Agencies scheduled 7,716 periodic reinvestigations in the second quarter of fiscal year 2025. In the second quarter of fiscal year 2026 they scheduled 100.The change that ended it for cleared industry was announced on 19 May 2026, when the Defense Counterintelligence and Security… more
Marrying or Living With a Foreign National: What It Does to Your Clearance and Your Job Options
The adjudicative clause that reaches your living arrangement never mentions foreign nationals. Guideline B of SEAD 4 lists as a disqualifying condition "shared living quarters with a person or persons, regardless of citizenship status, if that relationship creates a heightened ri… more
SF-86 Section 18: Which Relatives You Must List, Including Deceased and Foreign-Born
Section 18 of the Standard Form 86 never gives you a number. It prints 16 relative types as checkboxes, sets one instruction above them and leaves the arithmetic to your family: "Select each type of relative applicable to you, regardless if they are living or deceased." No publis… more