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Can a current career/career conditional employee who lacks time-in-grade apply as a VEOA candidate under an agency merit promotion announcement when the agency is accepting applications from outside its workforce?

No. Such an employee remains subject to time-in-grade restrictions.   However, a current career conditional employee is not restricted from applying to this type of announcements when there is a demographic area of consideration.

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