SC Clearance .........

[Churchill]

Of course I read the form, I completed it to as best as I possibly could.

Why didn't you discuss any concerns with your Security Controller? That's what they're there for.

[harry85]

Why didn't you discuss any concerns with your Security Controller? That's what they're there for.

Security Controller, basically the process went as follows, went for 2 interviews, during 2nd interview I was asked to fill out a written disclosure. I was offered the job 2 days later subject to me passing my disclosure. About 2 weeks later I received an email from DVA asking me to fill out a SC disclosure which I have. I have zero access to a security officer to discuss it prior to sending!!

[Incognito]

Security Controller, basically the process went as follows, went for 2 interviews, during 2nd interview I was asked to fill out a written disclosure. I was offered the job 2 days later subject to me passing my disclosure. About 2 weeks later I received an email from DVA asking me to fill out a SC disclosure which I have. I have zero access to a security officer to discuss it prior to sending!!

Is this the new Cerberus system you're referring to then? Was it called an e-form?

What Churchill was getting at was that your sponsor will have an office that deal with this. So for example if you're going HP to MoD then HP have a security office with a security controller. The agency who put you forward should be able to help with contact details.

Most probably the best thing to do though is to phone up the DVA (apparently they're now called DBS National Security Vetting though) helpdesk and explain to them what's happened and they'll advise.

01904 662644

[VectraMan]

Thanks for replys, just need to keep fingers crossed, just a waiting game now, thats been 6 weeks and counting, heard it can take anything between 30-80 days.

I've been waiting 3 1/2 months now. Unless I've got it already and nobody has bothered to tell me.

[harry85]

I've been waiting 3 1/2 months now. Unless I've got it already and nobody has bothered to tell me.

I was informed by my sponsor it can take between 30-80 days, my status on line is that my application is ''in progress''
After 80 days if I still haven't heard I'm not entirely sure what I can do, who do you chase up??
I was was told I would be in my position by September is successful. By what I've heard from others I'll be lucky to hear before Christmas, I'm in kind of limbo right now.

[VectraMan]

The Security Controller tried to chase it up about a month ago but all they'd tell him was that the application had been received. I'm the first to have applied with the newfangled electronic system, and as everybody knows government IT only succeeds in making everything take twice as long.

I'm still being paid, but technically my permanent job isn't permanent until I get SC.

[harry85]

Well I suppose your lucky that you are still being paid, though my job is within the same company that I worked for years my old job was made redundant so I am in a catch 22 situation, how long do you give it for them too make a decision. The online application I was told you could keep track of your applications progress but all I'm getting is it's in progress, no other info. I'm six weeks into my wait, so if you are longer I guess I'm going to have to be patient.

[centurian]

How long is a piece of string.

It might be worth exploring a contingency option - i.e. look at lining up a gig which doesn't need clearance, especially now you know that the risk of the application being rejected/delayed has increased.

[Zoiderman]

As said before, unless you have spent a vast amount of time in espionage or committing some very serious tulip, honesty will see it being granted; they were much more concerned with me having 4 mortgages on 4 houses, despite there being far more equity than debt, than anything I'd done before.

[UsrBinPRL]

I've been waiting 3 1/2 months now. Unless I've got it already and nobody has bothered to tell me.

When I first got cleared in the mid-nineties it took over six months, it was for a permie role and the client took me on site after four. Similar thing happened a few years later contracting at Astrium. My clearance had got lost (read a very annoyed listX agency "misplaced" it when I chose not to accept their generous renewal offer) and it took three months to sort out.

Last year my clearance expired and I had to get done again, it took between three and four weeks, this was just before the new electronic system came into being. A security officer at MBDA told me a couple of weeks ago that it's currently taking anywhere from three to five months with precious little feedback on the state of the application.

UBP