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DH and I are both prior military with honorable discharges. Why is it that we cannot submit proof of our honorable discharges in lieu of CPS background checks for each of the states we were stationed in? ANY criminal or otherwise negative activity goes through service members' chain of command and effects status, including being discharged and the type of discharge.
Furthermore, for overseas assignments, we are supposed to get some sort of letter from some Army department stating some sort of good conduct during that time.
Anyone know how to go about getting that letter? Or if military service actually makes this process more difficult, like it seems?
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My husband is active duty military with over 20 years in, and 11 of those years were overseas. When it came time to do our background checks (I spent 9 years overseas with him) we were told that the state would cover our "current background" and the federal would cover our time overseas. When you are overseas if you commit a crime it is reported to your state of record, so regardless of the state you are in, the federal will pick it up.
As far as your honorable discharges not being accepted in lieu of a background check, I'm sure we all know someone who has done something that they managed to keep from their Chain of Command.
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Moja, thanks for writing. There's always ways some people manage to pull a fast one, I guess. I actually got a response from USCIS (there's a first) saying that since S Korea doesn't have a cps record database, our homestudy can just state this fact. I'm waiting to see what our HS agency says about that, bc if they want a letter, they're going to have to tell us from whom.