Decisions by country · Guideline B · Foreign Influence
Ties to Colombia in decided clearance cases
Decided cases
51
hearing-level decisions naming this country in the text
Granted
65%
33 granted · 18 denied or revoked
Ties living in the United States
at least 13
decisions stating expressly that the relative or contact lives in the United States, so this is a floor
The ties these cases involved
Circumstances credited in granted cases
- deep U.S. ties · credited in 15 granted cases
- severed foreign contact · credited in 2 granted cases
- foreign assets divested · credited in 1 granted case
- U.S. military service · credited in 1 granted case
Recent decided examples
The applicant in this case was a 42-year-old employee of a government contractor who applied for a security clearance. The Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals (DOHA) addressed allegations under Gui…
The applicant in this case was a 28-year-old systems analyst employed by a defense contractor since August 2022. She was born in Colombia, became a U.S. citizen in March 2018, and had family members r…
The applicant in this case sought a security clearance but faced allegations under multiple adjudicative guidelines, specifically Guidelines D (Sexual Behavior), B (Foreign Influence), F (Financial Co…
The applicant in this case was a 67-year-old married man with a background in chemistry and a veteran of the Air Force National Guard. He faced security concerns under Guideline F (financial considera…
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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