You don't want my advice. I applied for an excellent Federal job, in a time of dire need. I don't remember any details about paperwork formalities, anyway. What I do remember is meeting with this guy, giving the standard suck-up schpiel (sp?), hearing INANE comments, then being asked if I had any questions. My question was what was their time frame (I was in dire straits.) He decided to 'fess up at that point (about 40 minutes into it) that there was a Department-wide hiring freeze (nationally) in place. The dumb twit couldn't acknowledge up front that he had failed to cancel my interview when the freeze went into place, so he was going to fake me through an entire hour long interview, then not hire me. . . .

Now I work in the same building with him and he doesn't remember me.

YOU, on the other hand, will not have an experience like that. Yours sounds like a great job.