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    SC clearance going to expire

    I got SC clearance last November but I'm in a contract now that does not need Clearance. My understanding is that it will lapse after 12 months if I'm not in a role that requires clearance. Is this true and if so is there any way I can extend the expiry date?

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    It's true, you get 5 years as a contractor but it will laps after 12 months if you don't use it.

    The only way to keep it going is take a gig that needs it.
    Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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      #3
      FFS, the whole system is cack. Can't even be bothered to rant

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        #4
        Originally posted by badger7579 View Post
        I got SC clearance last November but I'm in a contract now that does not need Clearance. My understanding is that it will lapse after 12 months if I'm not in a role that requires clearance. Is this true and if so is there any way I can extend the expiry date?
        As the Ginger one said yes it expires automatically after 12 months if not being used and no there's no way to prevent it apart from taking a gig in that time that requires it.

        There is some logic behind it, but not a vast amount.

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          #5
          Originally posted by TykeMerc View Post
          There is some logic behind it, but not a vast amount.
          It is something to the effect of: "A security clearance provides a certain level of assurance at a point in time, as to an individual's suitability to have trusted access to sensitive information. It does not provide a guarantee of future reliability."
          My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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            #6
            Originally posted by badger7579 View Post
            I got SC clearance last November but I'm in a contract now that does not need Clearance. My understanding is that it will lapse after 12 months if I'm not in a role that requires clearance. Is this true and if so is there any way I can extend the expiry date?
            So that's where you have been Badger, behind closed doors
            Fiscal nomad it's legal.

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              #7
              ask you agency if they have the ability to register and hold your seurity clearance for you.

              had the same but bailed after the fiist 6 months back into a sc role so i didnt lose it - agency suddenly developed the ability to have held it for me but by then it was too late...

              nevermind their loss I only asked the 3 or 4 times which at the time they didnt seem that interested in

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                #8
                You have until November to bail out and find an SC role. Get on with it.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by s2budd View Post
                  You have until November to bail out and find an SC role. Get on with it.
                  No don't!

                  Let it lapse and leave more for the rest of us
                  Cats are evil.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by badger7579 View Post
                    FFS, the whole system is cack. Can't even be bothered to rant
                    Badger - if an agent offers to hold your SC, they are lying to you, they cannot. Unless they themselves are working on government projects.

                    You may find that your existing client is already working on a government project you are not aware of.

                    Approach your client to sponsor you - explain your situation. I've been in the same situation and got my client to sponsor me in the past even though SC was not required.

                    Don't ask don't get don't complain...
                    "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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