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FBI fingerprinting/background check - how long does it take?
The one where you get your fingerprints taken on this form:
Sometimes electronic, sometimes ink. Sometimes by normal police, sometimes by the FBI or US Marshals. Anyways - how long does it take before your employer gets the results of your "rap" sheet and you get your security clearance (or denied)?
Thanks.
Sometimes electronic, sometimes ink. Sometimes by normal police, sometimes by the FBI or US Marshals. Anyways - how long does it take before your employer gets the results of your "rap" sheet and you get your security clearance (or denied)?
Thanks.
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Re: FBI fingerprinting/background check - how long does it take?
Probably not more than a couple of weeks. I've had it done twice, once to work for the Federal government, and I was able to start almost ASAP, within a week, and another time to get a public safety clearance card and that took over 3 months (I think having nothing to do with the background check part, just processing).
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Re: FBI fingerprinting/background check - how long does it take?
I've heard people at my school taking months if it's a full FBI background check for a U.S. Attorney's Office or something dealing with criminal stuff. I obtained a federal position in a non-criminal agency, and the background check only took 2 weeks.
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Re: FBI fingerprinting/background check - how long does it take?
I had to do this for my 1L summer job at the USAO, and I believe it took about 6 weeks or so from when I sent everything in before I was cleared to start work.
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Re: FBI fingerprinting/background check - how long does it take?
I was accepted for the FBI's Honor Internship in undergrad. The background check took around four weeks, including two polygraphs. If I hadn't been weeded out (blood relation to a felon), the process could've gone on even longer.
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Re: FBI fingerprinting/background check - how long does it take?
That weeds you out? That's absurd.JOThompson wrote:I was accepted for the FBI's Honor Internship in undergrad. The background check took around four weeks, including two polygraphs. If I hadn't been weeded out (blood relation to a felon), the process could've gone on even longer.
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Re: FBI fingerprinting/background check - how long does it take?
JOThompson wrote:I was accepted for the FBI's Honor Internship in undergrad. The background check took around four weeks, including two polygraphs. If I hadn't been weeded out (blood relation to a felon), the process could've gone on even longer.
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Re: FBI fingerprinting/background check - how long does it take?
yeah, how is that even remotely someone's fault?Always Credited wrote:That weeds you out? That's absurd.JOThompson wrote:I was accepted for the FBI's Honor Internship in undergrad. The background check took around four weeks, including two polygraphs. If I hadn't been weeded out (blood relation to a felon), the process could've gone on even longer.
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Re: FBI fingerprinting/background check - how long does it take?
To work for USAO (not in the summer, as an actual attorney) can take over six months.slowdiver wrote:I've heard people at my school taking months if it's a full FBI background check for a U.S. Attorney's Office or something dealing with criminal stuff. I obtained a federal position in a non-criminal agency, and the background check only took 2 weeks.
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Re: FBI fingerprinting/background check - how long does it take?
Not really. Think about if the felon is still involved with criminal activity and his/her associates use that family member as bait for the FBI employee.........Always Credited wrote:That weeds you out? That's absurd.JOThompson wrote:I was accepted for the FBI's Honor Internship in undergrad. The background check took around four weeks, including two polygraphs. If I hadn't been weeded out (blood relation to a felon), the process could've gone on even longer.
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Re: FBI fingerprinting/background check - how long does it take?
According to John Kroger, you don't get your DOJ badge until after your first, probationary year. You have to settle for a laminate a-la- Dexter.....I really want to be a AUSA...
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Re: FBI fingerprinting/background check - how long does it take?
The relative in question had a felony conviction for tax evasion. Not a particularly hardened criminal IMO, but I understand the FBI's logic in shutting me out. Still, it is supremely frustrating to be punished for the actions of others, over which you have no control.PoliticalJunkie wrote:Not really. Think about if the felon is still involved with criminal activity and his/her associates use that family member as bait for the FBI employee.........Always Credited wrote:That weeds you out? That's absurd.JOThompson wrote:I was accepted for the FBI's Honor Internship in undergrad. The background check took around four weeks, including two polygraphs. If I hadn't been weeded out (blood relation to a felon), the process could've gone on even longer.
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