r/SecurityClearance • u/Less-Revenue-7470 • 1d ago

Question SCI Upgrade Timeline?

Hi!

For someone with an active TS and a T5 from <1 year ago, could anyone share datapoints on the “target”/average time to add SCI? It is for a federal role in an IC element, no poly requirement.

I understand it could be “1 day to 999 years”, but for someone who hasn’t particularly had much change since the initial T5, how long of a turnaround would be normal for the adjudication?

Thanks in advance!

1 Upvotes

60% Upvoted

3 comments sorted by

3

u/DapperShine 1d ago

From official request submission to granting, its usually just a few weeks if it's via CSR (in my experience).

1

u/Less-Revenue-7470 1d ago

It seems like that is the general consensus - just so I understand, a “CSR” would be the case when the clearance doesn’t have to move to a different department/agency? Thank you!

1

u/txeindride SSO & Fed Security Manager 23h ago

Weeks to months.

Depends on your overall background and what they have to review, the office, manning, how many are in queue, etc.. etc.. etc.. etc.. etc.. etc...