Well it would not help to seal or explunge your record anyway, This only hides the conviction from normal employment background checks, all arrests ( even those dismissed) and all convictions even explunged will show up to police records check ( NCIC reports) they merely edit that info out before giving it to the public. And it will show up to any national security records check.
This is a "gottcha" type of thing, first of course they can not hire you because of a conviction, I have heard a few states have those laws, but that is why they ask have you ever been convicted of a felony.
On top of that , there are many licenses you can not get, Pri Dect, Insurance and Real Estate in many states if you have a felony conviction.
But you will find a felony conviction will keep you from getting hired in many places, if for say there is 100 applications for one job ( not unusuall now a days) they will start weeding them out, and guess who gets weeded out first, those with convictions, those that have been fired and so on. So you will have to be a little better, and stand out in their minds a little more with a conviction on your record.
You will also have to have a good credit record for some of the higher security levels, if you have any past due debts ( and they will search back way past your credit report,) when I got my highest level, they found a loan I did almost 18 years old, and I had to do a payment plan with them for the clearance to go though.
In fact for the one clearance, they sent inspectors to talk to my high school teachers, my college teachers, all of the neighbors I had for the previous 10 years, Honestly, and this sounds silly, they had in my record pick up lines I had used when I was young . I have no idea where they got all that info, and every negative issue had to be addressed before I could be cleared. ** and of course I had to sign where they could wire tap my phones and intercept my mail for the rest of my life.
So for a national security clearance, sorry there is nothing you can do at this point and time to ever hide it or get it so they will not see it.
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