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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2835 — DD Form 2835, Program Access Request, December 2000 — exists to Program Access Request, and it applies across the services rather than inside one. That is what the DD prefix encodes: joint issue, single edition, every branch and defense agency working from identical paper.
not stated is the prescribing publication and not stated the office responsible for the document. Deadlines belong to local implementing guidance, not to either of those, so a submission date is a question for the receiving office.
Edition not stated, status not stated. That comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
The set is PDF. Size: 1 pages, about 71 fields. Everything below refines that choice.
Take the fillable pdf unless you have a reason not to. Fillable means the boxes are real fields that accept typed text and retain it in the file. Printable means a flat blank — no fields, printer and pen only. The difference is not cosmetic: one produces a record that reproduces cleanly through scanning and forwarding, the other depends on penmanship.
Nothing costs anything here. Work in a full desktop pdf application rather than a browser preview; field behaviour in browsers is unreliable.
What the form asks for
- Classification when filled in.
- 1. Program name.
- 2. Access level.
- 3. Billet position? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- Billet number.
- 5. Rank or grade.
- 6. Social Security Number. Do not include dashes.
- 8. State and country of birth.
- 9. Status. X first box if military, second box if civilian, or third box if contractor.
- 7. Date of birth: four digit year, two digit month, two digit day, no dividers.
- 10. Date needed: four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 11. Position description or job title.
- 12. Position type. X first box if full time, second box if part time, or third box if temporary.
- 12. If temporary, period of access.
- 13. Organization or company name.
- 14. Assignment/job location: city and state.
- 15. Command/facility identification code.
- 16. Security clearance.
- 17. Granted by:
- 18. Date granted.
- 19. Type of investigation.
- 20. Conducted by:
- 21. Date completed.
- 22. Security investigation status. X first box if in progress, second box if not started, or third box if current.
Edition check comes first, ahead of any entry. Compare the printed date to not stated and replace anything older. Department-level supersession is simultaneous across the services, so a superseded blank is not merely out of date locally; the office receiving it is already working from the new field structure whichever branch it belongs to.
For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.
Route it where not stated or local procedure directs, and keep a copy first. On a Department form the receiving office is frequently outside your own chain — another service, a defense agency, a joint command — which makes recovering a lost original slower than it would be internally.
A number is a complete address in the DD series. Because the sequence is Department-level and not duplicated per service, there is nothing further to specify.
Do not read across from a service number. DA numbering is Army-specific under an Army proponent; DD numbering is Department-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. The sequences are unrelated, so identical digits in each identify two different documents. Read the prefix, not the digits.
Three drivers of revision: directive reissue, altered collection requirements, updated statutory notice text. No notification accompanies any of them, so download fresh and confirm not stated rather than reusing an archived file.
Limits of this page: it distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. No legal advice, no procedural ruling, no statement about whether any submission will be accepted. Applicability, eligibility and procedure belong to not stated, to a servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2835?
- DD Form 2835, Program Access Request, December 2000
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?