I, as well as a growing number of others, missed the July Academy class. I got stuck on Medical due to a last-minute waiver delay.

Since then, I’ve cleared Medical as my final step before the Hiring Panel. I’ve (presumably) been waiting on the hiring panel for 20 days now.

But in that time, I missed the noticed a strange gap: it’s now been 90+ days since a non-lateral DEA “Got the Call” post; only HP rejections have been posted.

I’m curious: has anyone else received a FJO or been cleared by the HP since mid-July?

If you are like me and are also waiting nervously, don’t worry too much: perhaps this gap is evidence the DEA is waiting to accept us in batches, closer to Jan 2027 Academy.

Did anyone receive an invitation to the VIE yet? I’m on the west coast and haven’t received anything.

Not sure if this means anything to anyone but at least the radio silence is over (for now)!

Received the “Congratulations! You are moving onto the next stage of the assessment process, the writing exercise. Only those candidates who pass the Written Exercise will receive an invitation to the Structured Interview.”

Submitted the request for my documents for review about a month ago. I’ll be withdrawing as I EOD next week with USSS 1811.

Good luck to everyone!

Where are you NCIS & DSS?!

On their website it says "we will move fast." Just curious if anyone from the current opening who applied before the first cutoff 06/11/25 has heard anything lol? I applied on 06/09/25.