Dear Nancy Drew,

The FBI has an obligation to tell you what they "think was the problem."

If you had a bad credit history or anything financial, I do not think they would have even considered offering you an option or re-applying.  They are very concerned about financial obligations as most of the past spies caught in the FBI did what they did for relatively little money.

My best guess is that someone they interviewed stated that you had smoked marijuana within the three year time frame of application and they wanted you to wait another year so you were out of that window.  I know you stated that you have not done anything since 2003 but all it take is one person who states that they witnessed or smoked with you and it is history, no questions asked. 

You will need more than one clean year out of debt to convince them if you have major financial debt loads in ratio to your income and assets.

You have to understand as special as you think they are, the FBI gets hundreds of thousands of applicants every year to pick and choose from.  It is a numbers game.  They expect to go through 500 to 1000 applicants to get one person through all stages to employment.  Slightest problem and they move on to the next applicant.

Regards.

I think that's right I don;t think it was poly.

I heard that credit scores had to be above 700. (Not sure now after the mortgage implosion). I was in the middle of re-fi and paid a few credit cards off. My scores were in the 690's.

I have indeed cleaned all that up and my scores are in the mid 730s. 

Wondering if anyone knows about the credit score cutoff...

Nancy Drew