Background check taking forever. Should I worry?

I’ve been stuck in background check for 3 weeks now. Apparently international background check is taking longer than expected.

Should I worry?

4 Comments
 

It depends, do you have reason to worry about a background check? Either way, there’s nothing you could do now, so try to relax.

 

No reason to worry then brother. You’ll be fine. Also, I didn’t mean to patronize with the “relax” comment above (saying this bc I got hit with MS). I genuinely was suggesting to relax haha

 

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