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Ties to China in decided clearance cases

What the decided public record shows for cases in which ties to China 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

425

hearing-level decisions naming this country in the text

Granted

41%

173 granted · 252 denied or revoked

Ties living in the United States

at least 78

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 China allegations in these cases. A case can involve several, and the bars count cases rather than outcomes, so they carry no colour.
Parent in foreign country272 cases
Unspecified foreign relationship166 cases
Sibling in foreign country149 cases
In law in foreign country134 cases
Spouse dual or foreign citizen101 cases
Extended family in foreign country68 cases
Friend in foreign country40 cases

Circumstances credited in granted cases

Circumstances the judge expressly credited among granted China 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 59 granted cases

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 25-00122Granted2026

    Applicant, a U.S.-based professor and naturalized citizen, answered SOR allegations involving foreign contacts, foreign preference, and outside activities. He admitted several foreign board and busine…

  • ISCR Case No. 24-02470Granted2025

    The applicant in this case was a 46-year-old flight simulation technician employed by a defense contractor, seeking to retain his security clearance. The Department of Defense issued a Statement of Re…

  • ISCR Case No. 25-00899Denied2026

    The applicant's security clearance application was denied due to failure to mitigate foreign influence concerns related to relationships with individuals from the People's Republic of China. The appli…

  • ISCR Case No. 25-01093Denied2026

    Applicant, a represented mechanical engineer and naturalized U.S. citizen, was denied a security clearance under Guideline B. The judge found disqualifying foreign influence based on Applicant’s frequ…

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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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