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Certification of Investigation

Form COI. This is an agency-to-agency document. You do not normally receive it, and it is not an adverse action.

What it is

A notice in the closing package certifying the level of investigation completed and that a final adjudication was made. It is filed in the personnel folder.

Also called

COI, certification of investigation.

Where this comes from

DCSA — Terms and Definitions DCSA: certifies "the level of background investigation that was completed and that a final adjudication was made".

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