What is this clearance document?

A directory of the forms and notices that appear in a security clearance case. Search by form number or by a phrase from the page in front of you. Each entry says what the document is, whether it is something you normally see, and where the description comes from.

Many of these are routine processing notices between agencies rather than decisions about you. For the correspondence in a contested case — the interrogatory, the Statement of Reasons, the hearing notice, the decision and the appeal — see correspondence in a DOHA case, which covers those in more depth.

• Access agreements and briefings

  What is signed once eligibility exists, and what is signed on the way out.

  • Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement

    SF 312

    You normally see or sign this. · Edition 12/2023

    The nondisclosure agreement signed before access to classified information begins. Its obligations continue after the job ends.

    What you do: Sign it at indoctrination. Access does not start until it is signed.

    Also called: SF-312, SF312, NDA, nondisclosure agreement

    Full entry for SF 312

    Source: GSA — Standard Forms — GSA forms page gives form number SF312, revision 12/2023, and the cited authority. Authority: 32 CFR Part 2001.80 and Executive Order 13526.

  • Financial Disclosure Report

    SF 714

    You normally see or sign this. · Edition 07/2022

    A financial disclosure required for certain categories of access, separate from the financial questions on the questionnaire.

    What you do: Complete it where the agency requires it for the access being granted.

    Also called: SF-714, SF714, financial disclosure

    Full entry for SF 714

    Source: GSA — Standard Forms — GSA forms page gives form number SF714, revision 07/2022, authority Executive Order 12968. Authority: Executive Order 12968.

  • Security Termination Statement

    NRC Form 136; DOE F 5631.29; DA Form 2962

    You normally see or sign this.

    The statement signed when access ends, acknowledging that the duty to protect what you learned continues. The form number is agency-specific rather than government-wide. Note that DD Form 2962 is a different document entirely — a system access request — despite the similar number.

    What you do: Sign it at the exit briefing. The obligation it records does not expire with the job.

    Also called: security termination statement, debriefing statement, exit briefing, debrief

    Full entry for NRC Form 136; DOE F 5631.29; DA Form 2962

    Source: NRC Form 136 information collection — NRC Form 136 is titled "Security Termination Statement"; DOE F 5631.29 and DA Form 2962 carry the same title. Industry equivalent is the NISPOM debriefing at 32 CFR 117.12(l).

Each entry was checked against the issuing agency’s own published source, and documents that could not be verified against an official source are deliberately not listed. Descriptive research on published procedures. Not legal advice, and not a prediction about any pending case.