how long does it take to get a secret clearance done these days?
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Anonymous
| Are we talking about weeks or months? I need to decide on a job offer with security contingency. |
Anonymous
| Months. |
Anonymous
| Months to potentially a year |
Anonymous
| Agree. |
Anonymous
| It really depends. My husband's took eight months, but it was because I have dual citizenship and he used to work for the World Bank, she he knows a lot of foreign nationals. Some of his friends took just a month or two. It also depends on how much of a backlog they have at the time. |