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Ties to Canada in decided clearance cases

What the decided public record shows for cases in which ties to Canada were alleged. Ties to any country are not themselves disqualifying, and every case turns on its own facts. This is decided history, not a prediction, and it says nothing about any nationality or community.

Decided cases

42

hearing-level decisions naming this country in the text

Granted

48%

20 granted · 22 denied or revoked

Ties living in the United States

at least 3

decisions stating expressly that the relative or contact lives in the United States, so this is a floor

The ties these cases involved

The kinds of relationship identified on Canada allegations in these cases. A case can involve several, and the bars count cases rather than outcomes, so they carry no colour.
Sibling in foreign country22 cases
Parent in foreign country9 cases
Spouse dual or foreign citizen8 cases
Extended family in foreign country6 cases
Unspecified foreign relationship4 cases
Foreign real estate3 cases
Foreign bank account or investment3 cases

Circumstances credited in granted cases

Circumstances the judge expressly credited among granted Canada cases where that detail was extracted. Extraction covers a subset of the record, so these are raw counts and not rates.
  • deep U.S. ties · credited in 4 granted cases

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 18-00342Granted2019

    The applicant in this case was a 32-year-old linguist employed by a Department of Defense contractor, seeking to maintain his security clearance. The Department of Defense issued a Statement of Reason…

  • ISCR Case No. 16-04056.h1Granted2018

    The judge found that the applicant's foreign contacts in Taiwan did not create a heightened risk of foreign influence or coercion. The applicant's ties to Taiwan were deemed routine and not likely to …

  • ISCR Case No. 19-02790Denied2023

    The applicant in this case was a 55-year-old strategic cyber-security advisor who had held a security clearance for approximately 35 years. The Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals (DOHA) addressed …

  • ISCR Case No. 18-01740Denied2020

    The applicant in this case was a 51-year-old manufacturing planner employed by a major aerospace company since 2007, seeking a security clearance to work on defense contracts. The Department of Defens…

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Other countries in the record

How these numbers are measured

Scope: decided hearing-level cases whose Guideline B allegations name this country. The country field is free text in the source, so the variants observed in the record are mapped onto one canonical name and nothing is guessed; records naming several countries in one field are excluded rather than split. A case naming two countries counts once under each. Counts of country risk and of ties living in the United States are counted only where the decision says so expressly, so both are floors. Pages exist only for countries with at least 25 decided cases.

Reading the statistics

  • Granted = access granted or continued; Denied = denied or revoked.
  • Grant rate = granted ÷ (granted + denied).
  • † marks figures based on fewer than 20 cases, too few to be reliable.
  • Hovering any rate shows its statistical range (a 95% confidence interval).
  • Figures are descriptive counts over decided, public DOHA ISCR decisions, never predictions or assessments of any pending case.

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