Foreign-ties decisions, by country
Foreign-influence cases (Guideline B) turn on a person’s ties to another country: family, property, contacts. These pages show how the decided record resolved cases involving each country. This is the record of decided cases, and nothing more: it says nothing about any nationality or community, and having ties to any country is not itself disqualifying.
- China · 420 cases · 41% granted
- Taiwan · 295 cases · 66% granted
- Iran · 292 cases · 37% granted
- Afghanistan · 263 cases · 52% granted
- Iraq · 227 cases · 59% granted
- India · 212 cases · 75% granted
- Israel · 190 cases · 57% granted
- Russia · 185 cases · 38% granted
- Pakistan · 181 cases · 52% granted
- Lebanon · 120 cases · 50% granted
- South Korea · 96 cases · 67% granted
- Vietnam · 95 cases · 75% granted
- Jordan · 78 cases · 51% granted
- Hong Kong · 72 cases · 57% granted
- Nigeria · 71 cases · 51% granted
- Egypt · 71 cases · 54% granted
- Turkey · 61 cases · 56% granted
- Philippines · 59 cases · 49% granted
- Ukraine · 58 cases · 55% granted
- Colombia · 51 cases · 65% granted
- United Kingdom · 47 cases · 74% granted
- Syria · 46 cases · 35% granted
- Canada · 41 cases · 49% granted
- Thailand · 39 cases · 46% granted
- Germany · 39 cases · 69% granted
- Sudan · 38 cases · 53% granted
- Saudi Arabia · 35 cases · 46% granted
- France · 30 cases · 57% granted
- Mexico · 30 cases · 43% granted
- United Arab Emirates · 25 cases · 64% granted
Countries identified in 4,109 decided hearing-level Guideline B case mentions; countries under 25 cases are not listed. A case involving several countries counts under each one; the small number of records naming multiple countries in one field are excluded rather than guessed. Related: the Issue Encyclopedia and Guideline B explained. Descriptive research on decided public cases, not legal advice or a prediction.