SC Clearance

Dunks · 7 Nov 2013 at 12:46

3 working weeks

DaleTheWhale · 7 Nov 2013 at 12:54

Took around 3 months, but this was done through Defence Vetting team? So I expected it to take a little longer.

XE11 · 7 Nov 2013 at 12:55

Dunks said:
I know with some places you can with a basic BC(?) level check and depending on the information you need to access.

Seems I have to wait!

mine took about 9 months. (5 years ago)

yes, for anything less hidden a BC will be ok. (dont think i can say the levels....)

quickshot89 · 7 Nov 2013 at 12:59

ThaReaperGuy said:
Took around 3 months, but this was done through Defence Vetting team? So I expected it to take a little longer.

Is that the MOD site? Mine took about 6 weeks I think

randal · 7 Nov 2013 at 13:02

In my experience:

BC - couple of weeks
SC - 4-6 weeks
DV - 6 months, with interview.

DaleTheWhale · 7 Nov 2013 at 13:05

quickshot89 said:
Is that the MOD site? Mine took about 6 weeks I think

That's the one, I think it was partly down to other factors as it was done through both my company and Rolls Royce, but it did take a little while.

agnes · 7 Nov 2013 at 14:07

First time I went through SC, 4-5 months if I remember correctly. But only because the site I was doing it for had their own department for it if I remember correctly.

DV... Whole other story.

Dunks · 7 Nov 2013 at 14:15

ThaReaperGuy said:
That's the one, I think it was partly down to other factors as it was done through both my company and Rolls Royce, but it did take a little while.

https://www.nsv.mod.uk/ ?

Was where I went through

robfosters · 7 Nov 2013 at 14:53

My DV interview in the Foreign Office was a nightmare. Embarrassing doesn't even come close.

grimm · 7 Nov 2013 at 14:57

What sort of job is it that you would need it for, if you don't mind me asking?

robfosters · 7 Nov 2013 at 15:00

grimm said:
What sort of job is it that you would need it for, if you don't mind me asking?

I already had a security check, but then I got moved to CTD (counter terrorism) in the FCO. I was only an admin boy at the time, but I still needed to do electronic filing on the fortress computer system, which needed DV clearance.

jimjamuk · 7 Nov 2013 at 15:47

6 weeks for the initial SC check then 4 weeks on renewal. Anyone unfortunate to have not had it but had a start date sat in reception reading manuals until it came through

DaleTheWhale · 7 Nov 2013 at 15:47

Dunks said:
https://www.nsv.mod.uk/ ?

Was where I went through

That's the one!

Ceryndrion · 7 Nov 2013 at 16:07

If I remember rightly, though it was nearly 20 years ago, it was about 3 months for mine (DV) along with a lovely day long seminar about the ways in which they'd make my life a living hell if I broke the official secrets act.

Of course, it helped then that I was RN, and my parents were RAF.

Gilly · 7 Nov 2013 at 16:27

Ceryndrion said:
If I remember rightly, though it was nearly 20 years ago, it was about 3 months for mine (DV) along with a lovely day long seminar about the ways in which they'd make my life a living hell if I broke the official secrets act.

Of course, it helped then that I was RN, and my parents were RAF.

I believe it's two long interviews now, going back 3 generations too.

semi-pro waster · 7 Nov 2013 at 19:41

ThaReaperGuy said:
Took around 3 months, but this was done through Defence Vetting team? So I expected it to take a little longer.

If you mean DV then that stands for Developed Vetting. CW jobs gives an outline of the various common security levels - I'm not going to vouch for the accuracy of all of it and I'd not suggest relying on it without corroboration but the information is there for whatever use you can make of it.

Nick1881 · 7 Nov 2013 at 20:04

Mine took about 6 weeks, all through my employer.

robfosters · 7 Nov 2013 at 20:14

One of my mates, who is intellectual but no common sense, confessed in his DV interview to still smoking weed occasionally.

Rather than give him his DV, they stripped him of his security clearance. There were no jobs he could do in the FCO with a basic CTC, so he was disciplined and shipped off to DCMS. Fair do's to him though, he turned it round after a few years, got back in and is now a head of section. So didn't turn out too bad.

Scythe · 7 Nov 2013 at 21:09

My SC took about 4-6 weeks from start of application to receiving it. I don't really have any financial background other than a student loan so it's fairly straight forward for me.