Posted on Mar 30, 2017
How could I verify my security clearance status after leaving service?
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SGT Jacqueem Spratley – Ask a trusted agent with a JPAS (Joint Personnel Adjudication System) Account to help you. This person usually wears the hat of a Unit Security Manager as an additional duty. You'll need to give them your SSAN to check your clearance status.
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Go to your security manage before you leave and get a memo verifying your clearance. Then when you apply for jobs you can give them that. I'm not sure if people stay in JPAS after ETS or retirement. But I would think that civilian businesses or contractors could verify you held a clearance at some point.
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Good general info, but my question asked "after leaving service" because I've already ETS'ed.
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SFC Kelly Fuerhoff
I'm fairly sure that when you apply or fill out your resume you include that you held a clearance from xxxx - xxxx. They can verify that you had the clearance and if it was never revoked or you never had your access suspended then they will be more likely to spend the money to do the investigation to get you the clearance.
It also depends on what level of clearance you had while you were in too. Some people go the whole time with a Secret. If you had a TS, it was because of MOS or duty position.
There's nothing you personally can do to verify it after you have ETSed.
It also depends on what level of clearance you had while you were in too. Some people go the whole time with a Secret. If you had a TS, it was because of MOS or duty position.
There's nothing you personally can do to verify it after you have ETSed.
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So much urban myth out there. When you leave MIL, your security office is required to cancel your clearance. If they don't, standby for the buttkicking on the next Security Audit. By definition, you have no security clearance sponsor, hence no clearance. If you go to work for the GOV or contractor for GOV work in which your new position requires a clearance, the new sponsor cognizant security office will process the new clearance request for you. Make no mistake, it will be a new clearance because the MIL one no longer exists. That you had a clearance previously for which the BI, SSBI, etc. shelf life is still good, then being granted a new one is much faster. There's far less pucker factor on interim clearances being done locally while waiting for the clearinghouse stuff to be done. Even during a MIL career, many SMs have their clearances turned on and off depending on whether or not their billet requires it. Especially true for SCI and higher. There's an ironclad process for debriefing, nondisclosures, etc. associated with it. Bottom line, the old clearance is gone, but the basis can still be valid, which is the key to getting a new one fast. Saw a comment about a 3-dayer. Sounds like an interim while the rest of the world caught up.
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SFC Kelly Fuerhoff
No sir they have to take away your access. The unit security manager cannot remove a clearance. Only access. When I left my first unit (this was 2009 so things might have changed) the guidance from the Security Office on base and I believe regulation was that I as the security manager could give someone a security clearance verification form. This was a memo that stated they had retained a clearance. Then if they applied to a job within 2 years of leaving the military that clearance could be transferred to the civilian side. Things might have changed since then but I remember having that policy printed out.
Granted yes the fact someone had a clearance and retained it in good standing then the contractor or company is going to be more willing to spend the money on that person's investigation, etc.
No one gets a clearance "turned off" in the military. You get access granted or removed based on your duty description. Like when I left Cyber Command I had to have accesses removed for the buildings, programs there and turned in my NSA badge once I left the gate (drop box). If I were to go back now I would have to get a visitor badge. But I still have my clearance so I would be able to go to the areas that my clearance allows but I could not get into higher access areas until I was read-on into those areas. So if I go there now I can go anywhere TS/SCI but not HCS/Gamma, etc.
Security managers can't revoke clearances. Only the services can do that so Army Central Clearance Facility and then whatever it's called in the Air Force, Navy and Marines (probably Navy for them). I think it's CCF for all of them too. Only they can revoke clearances.
Granted yes the fact someone had a clearance and retained it in good standing then the contractor or company is going to be more willing to spend the money on that person's investigation, etc.
No one gets a clearance "turned off" in the military. You get access granted or removed based on your duty description. Like when I left Cyber Command I had to have accesses removed for the buildings, programs there and turned in my NSA badge once I left the gate (drop box). If I were to go back now I would have to get a visitor badge. But I still have my clearance so I would be able to go to the areas that my clearance allows but I could not get into higher access areas until I was read-on into those areas. So if I go there now I can go anywhere TS/SCI but not HCS/Gamma, etc.
Security managers can't revoke clearances. Only the services can do that so Army Central Clearance Facility and then whatever it's called in the Air Force, Navy and Marines (probably Navy for them). I think it's CCF for all of them too. Only they can revoke clearances.
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