Security Portion of the Application
Once you get to the security portion of the application process, you can rest assured that they are interested in you, pending a successful background check and polygraph.
That said, you are not guaranteed to pass this portion and it takes a long time. You will fill out a form providing information on every aspect of your life for the last fifteen years, to include information on everywhere you have lived, neighbor’s names, references, your family members, friends, places you have traveled, foreigners that you know, etc. Your first time filling out this form will take a substantial period of time.
Once this is submitted you will be scheduled for a polygraph, while investigators are concurrently talking to people about you in every location that you have been for the past fifteen years. This process costs the government a lot of money, and will take upwards of 6-9 months. Again, this is typically the longest part and the reason the entire application process is often longer than a Congressional term.
