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.

Stage

All stages Adverse action, hearing and appeal Access agreements and briefings Getting your own records

Where it applies

Everywhere Defense and contractor Energy

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Adverse action, hearing and appeal

What arrives when the answer is provisionally no, and what governs the process that follows.

Letter of Interrogatory

You normally see or sign this.

What it is: A written set of questions put to the individual, used at Energy as an alternative to a personal security interview. Note the terminology trap: in Defense personnel security "LOI" normally means Letter of Intent, which is a different document at a different stage. DOHA’s equivalent instrument is called written interrogatories.
What you do: Answer in writing, completely and consistently with what is already on file. Inconsistency between an answer here and the questionnaire is itself a concern.
Also called: letter of interrogatory, LOI, interrogatory, written interrogatories

Full entry for Letter of Interrogatory

Source: DOE M 470.4-5, Personnel Security. DOE M 470.4-5 Chapter III section 5 is titled "Letters of Interrogatory"; 32 CFR Part 155 Appendix A authorises DOHA written interrogatories.

How the process worksDocuments arrive in a published order. The stages below follow that order, from the first questionnaire to a request for your own records.

A contested case follows a published path: a Statement of Reasons, the government's written list of its concerns (an SOR), a written answer, a hearing or a decision on the written record, the judge's decision, and in some cases an appeal.

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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.

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