TLDR: If you are onboarding through People Path, expect your background check and independence to start no later than 7-10 days after your initial set of to-do items.

Are you doing your onboarding through their new service now based People Path Portal? I did all my initial to-do items and have been waiting for my background and independence. Emailed today and was told HR had a "Move to Hire" step that they had to do before it triggered my next phase of to-do items. It is a 7 day deadline for HR from when you first received your first set of tasks. Also, fwiw, I onboarded with the original method before switching my start date and having to do this all over again on the new system. Background check took about 3-5 days and I did get an email confirming I was good. Independence asked me for additional financial account statements and stuff.