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Posted by grim reaper
- Dec 30, 2025, 07:35 PMQuotea suspicion of what?Is quickfix DEAD?
Posted by Guest
- Dec 29, 2025, 08:47 AMa suspicion of what?
Posted by Me2
- Dec 28, 2025, 10:20 AMAny posts from quickfix lately? I have a suspicion...
Posted by old chap 1776
- Dec 24, 2025, 05:13 PMI am the OP. I still don't know if I passed that poly that I took a year ago. The IC did finish my background check and I've been sitting in adjudication for about ten months. I was harshly interrogated but I didn't budge. It is a good thing I didn't confess to all those foreign whores I smashed. Does this mean I passed?
I would like to say something else. I am starting to think the IC has relaxed a bit on guys who they know like to travel and have sex with foreign women. Quite frankly, you don't have to report these women if it is a one night stand. Even if you hook up a few times while abroad, I don't think the IC cares so much as long as you aren't keeping contact with them when you get home to the U.S. and aren't sending them money. I think marrying a Russian woman is a security risk. Banging a few whores in some third world country is not so much, just don't admit to prostitution.
I would like to say something else. I am starting to think the IC has relaxed a bit on guys who they know like to travel and have sex with foreign women. Quite frankly, you don't have to report these women if it is a one night stand. Even if you hook up a few times while abroad, I don't think the IC cares so much as long as you aren't keeping contact with them when you get home to the U.S. and aren't sending them money. I think marrying a Russian woman is a security risk. Banging a few whores in some third world country is not so much, just don't admit to prostitution.
Posted by old chap 1776
- Jul 06, 2025, 05:41 PMYou would know if your BI started because your credit would get pulled and your references would notify you that have been contacted. If you were found unsuitable after only the poly, then it has to have been something you said during the poly. That's the only way. Sorry man. I still have my fingers cross. They agency actually completed my BI.
I find it hard to believe that you applied in January and had a poly only a month later. This is an impossible timeline in the IC. When you apply, it takes several months before you are contacted back. You have to go through preliminary online testing, standard interviews, and even a pre-security interview all before the poly, which can take several months to a year before you even get to the poly! Unless you are transitioning directly from another agency or something and already had a TS/SCI clearance.
QuoteApplied January 2021, poly February 2021, rejection letter December 2021; was a direct hire process.
I find it hard to believe that you applied in January and had a poly only a month later. This is an impossible timeline in the IC. When you apply, it takes several months before you are contacted back. You have to go through preliminary online testing, standard interviews, and even a pre-security interview all before the poly, which can take several months to a year before you even get to the poly! Unless you are transitioning directly from another agency or something and already had a TS/SCI clearance.
Posted by Jorge Mendosa
- Jul 06, 2025, 07:26 AMOnly one poly given.
No admissions made. No harsh interrogation.
Don't know if background investigation was started or completed.
Rejection letter only said found unsuitable for employment.
Was not Covid, as NSA was hiring and the waiting room was full of applicants.
No admissions made. No harsh interrogation.
Don't know if background investigation was started or completed.
Rejection letter only said found unsuitable for employment.
Was not Covid, as NSA was hiring and the waiting room was full of applicants.
Posted by old chap 1776
- Jul 05, 2025, 03:12 PMQuoteApplied January 2021, poly February 2021, rejection letter December 2021; was a direct hire process.
Maybe Covid had something to do with your rejection, such as the NSA not hiring during the pandemic.
- Did they call you in for a second or third poly?
- What there something you admitted to or were harshly interrogated on that may be the reason for denial?
- Did your background investigation start and/or conclude?
- Did they tell you why you were rejected or was it a vague suitability denial?
Sorry for all the questions, I'm just trying to gauge my process. Several of us on Reddit and in the clearancejobs discussion board are in limbo trying to figure out what is going on.
Posted by Jorge Mendosa
- Jul 05, 2025, 12:01 PMApplied January 2021, poly February 2021, rejection letter December 2021; was a direct hire process.
Posted by old chap 1776
- Jul 05, 2025, 10:06 AMQuoteyou very likely were disqualified. Ten months after my NSA poly I received a one-page rejection letter from NSA.
Yikes. Sorry to hear and I guess it sucks for me. On other forums like reddit people have been cleared after a year or more. Those who are rejected jsually find out quickly, like within a couple of months after a poly.
When did you go through the process? Your job was a direct hire fed job with NSA? Can you post your timeline?
Posted by Jorge Mendosa
- Jul 05, 2025, 09:52 AMyou very likely were disqualified. Ten months after my NSA poly I received a one-page rejection letter from NSA.
Posted by old chap 1776
- Jul 05, 2025, 08:04 AMAs of today, still no updates. It has been about 9 months since my poly, and 8 months in adjudication. The security folks at the IC contractor job told me I went into adjudication about a month after the poly. I wonder if the poly accusations were part of some criminal investigation they are doing on me? I have been a naughty boy, but I leave no traces and I didn't confess to anything . . .
Posted by harlot
- Apr 15, 2025, 01:29 AMQuote@ harlot
Harlot was that your very first time or did you already posses a clearance?
For me I did not have a clearance at the time I took that all-day CI polygraph. I previously had a clearance and a poly many many years ago but I left that job because it strained my marriage (I know my username means "hooker" but I'm not one, I just chose this name from a tv show I like).
This recent poly was almost a year ago and I've been told my background check finished and I've been in adjudication ever since. Silence. No updates. Just waiting, and waiting, and waiting. It seems like since Trump took office these clearances are taking much longer.
Posted by soc
- Feb 27, 2025, 05:50 PM@ harlot
Harlot was that your very first time or did you already posses a clearance?
Harlot was that your very first time or did you already posses a clearance?
Posted by clear me please
- Jan 30, 2025, 07:33 AMThanks George. I just needed reassurance. lol. With a few red flags in my "friend's" file, one would hope that if the agency still goes through with security processing after honest answers in the pre-screening questions, an overly honest SF86, everything reconfirmed during the BI and poly, and no extra admissions, that all is good. Though you never know with these 3-letter agencies . . .
Posted by George W. Maschke
- Jan 29, 2025, 11:58 PMQuoteHey George. For someone who goes through this experience, but doesn't make any confessions, and has their entire background check completed with references contacted and police and credit records pulled, what are the chances of that person being granted a clearance?
Like the whole TS/SCI+poly background check is done, all red flags being reconfirmed by references and records, no additional poly admissions, but now the person's file sits in adjudication. Is this a good sign? Asking for a friend . . .
Overall, I think this augurs well.