I left the RAF last year and for the last 20 years of my time I was DV cleared. I obtained a job with a civilian company which had contracts with various Government agencies for which I needed my DV to be resurrected as well as some other checks which one of the agencies required. After 6 months of waiting for the clearances to come through I had to get a job elsewhere due to financial pressures, so my original job had to be knocked on the head. Had the clearances come through in a reasonable time then I wouldn't be in my current job. I have a lot of sympathy with the original civilian company as they couldn't get me started until the clearances and other checks came through, so they are back at stage one and have to recruit somebody else and again wait for the clearance process to give them the green light