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Ties to France in decided clearance cases

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

31

hearing-level decisions naming this country in the text

Granted

55%

17 granted · 14 denied or revoked

Ties living in the United States

at least 4

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 France 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 country15 cases
Parent in foreign country14 cases
Unspecified foreign relationship10 cases
Spouse dual or foreign citizen9 cases
Foreign bank account or investment8 cases
In law in foreign country5 cases
Foreign real estate3 cases

Circumstances credited in granted cases

Circumstances the judge expressly credited among granted France 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 3 granted cases

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 20-03288Granted2022

    the applicant had significant financial ties to France, the Department of Defense (DoD) issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) citing concerns under the foreign influence and foreign preference guideline…

  • ISCR Case No. 16-03899.h1Granted2017

    The judge found that the applicant mitigated the security concerns under Guideline B, foreign influence, and ruled in favor of the applicant on all allegations. The applicant's connections to foreign …

  • ISCR Case No. 25-01308Denied2026

    Applicant, a defense contractor employee and dual citizen of the United States, Portugal, and France, was denied a security clearance under Guidelines B and C. He owned substantial real estate in Port…

  • ISCR Case No. 18-02096Denied2020

    Applicant, a 61-year-old employee of a federal contractor, sought a security clearance after submitting a security clearance application in May 2016. The Department of Defense issued a Statement of Re…

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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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