u/NoSignUpNoCCNOBS

My time line for those with financial and tax issues, glad to share I finally received the news I’ve been waiting on.

Job offered March 2025

SF86 filled out March 17th 2025

Investigation for Secret with Federal agent April 2025

Radio silence “Pending eligibility” for about 11 months
March 2026 FSO Receives Eyes Only package
Open, Tax issues for multiple years, a (2) 1 unpaid. March- 2026

Tax issue is resolved in Early August with arrangement fixed and state paid off.

1 collection reported on SF86 paperwork provided in April last year. (Paid off)

1 foreign contact - brother’s girlfriend.

Eyes-Only is submitted back to DCSA - Aug 2026

Radio silence - August to late September

September 30th, Clearance granted with conditions.

Total start to finish about 1.5 years for Secret Clearance.

Hi! Follow up for my previous post where I had some tax issues, I’ve resolved everything state paid in full and IRS on a payment arrangement, had an issue where I failed to file and pay, (I know) fixed now I’m waiting.

Been around a month since I’ve sent my packet back in and pure radio silence. I’ve seen some say after submitting their LOI back to DCSA it can be days, weeks and even months? So you go back into adjudication correct? I was hoping I was done process started March 2025, March 2026 sent a LOI. Gathered docs took 5 months for additional transcripts to post and submitted August 10th. This is for a Secret Clearance.

Thoughts? Really bummed with how long this has taken, this was my only red flag on my LOI.

New Clearance applicant. Received Interrogatory DCSA wants IRS Account Transcripts for 2020–2024. All years clean except 2022 I owed state and federal that year and didn't file (I know), Got it fixed: prepared and filed a corrected return, but my old accountant put a wrong SSN on it, delaying processing. Re-mailed a corrected, signed 1040 in March, still nothing showing in the IRS system months later.

What I've done:

1. State side is fully resolved, have proof of income/tax/payments
2. Confirmed directly with IRS nothing's posted yet for 2022
3. TAS confirmed it can't be expedited, just has to work through the queue (12–16 wks), advised sending a new signed 1040 ASAP did that, certified mail, signed for, recorded TAS Agents name and Employee ID for records.
4. Filed a congressional inquiry to help get status confirmation

The problem: DCSA explicitly says only the Account Transcript counts not the 1040 copy, not wage/income transcripts, since those don't prove the IRS actually processed/settled it.

Question: Deadline's coming up and the transcript may not post in time. Should I submit everything now (clean years + full documentation of the 2022 delay) on just that one document, or hold the whole packet in hopes I get the final document?

Anyone dealt with something similar underlying issue actually resolved, but stuck waiting on IRS processing for the proof? Did DCSA work with you on this?