SC getting lapsed in 2 weeks..

[northernladuk]

NO. The clearance has lapsed. If you get a new role that needs clearance the security team at the new place can contact your previous security team and request a transfer of the clearance vet. That may be enough to reinstate your clearance, however there are three gotchas:

1. The convention only lasts for a year, after which you're back to square one. And it is merely a convention to cut down unnecessary work across the security teams and vetting agencies, it's not a rule.

2. Your previous clearance may not suit the requirements of the new role. As I keep saying, it's a risk assessment. Police clearance usually won't get you in the MOD for example, they have different criteria.

3. The new team may not recognise the old one and want to do their own vet anyway - moving from a commercial company to HMG for example (had that one twice now).

So Spartan is partly right that there is a chance of a renewal that will work quicker than from scratch but there are caveats mentioned above.

How's that?

[malvolio]

So Spartan is partly right that there is a chance of a renewal that will work quicker than from scratch but there are caveats mentioned above.

How's that?

Near enough. But previous clearance doesn't speed anything up or pre-dispose you for getting re-cleared outside the grace period.

And even then it's the original paperwork that gets transferred. The new team will still have to vet that against their own requirement. That may take a day, it has been known to sit in an In Tray for a month or more...