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Ties to Germany in decided clearance cases

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

40

hearing-level decisions naming this country in the text

Granted

68%

27 granted · 13 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 Germany 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 country16 cases
Parent in foreign country8 cases
Friend in foreign country7 cases
Unspecified foreign relationship6 cases
Extended family in foreign country5 cases
In law in foreign country4 cases
Foreign bank account or investment4 cases

Circumstances credited in granted cases

Circumstances the judge expressly credited among granted Germany 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 6 granted cases

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 23-02263Granted2025

    The applicant in this case was a 37-year-old native of Afghanistan who sought a security clearance after being employed as a linguist for U.S. military forces. The Defense Counterintelligence and Secu…

  • ISCR Case No. 21-00857Granted2022

    The applicant in this case was a 35-year-old employee of a defense contractor and a Captain in the Air Force Reserve, who had held a security clearance since 2011. The Department of Defense issued a S…

  • ISCR Case No. 25-00645Denied2026

    Applicant, a naturalized U.S. citizen and pro se, was denied eligibility for a security clearance. The judge found Guideline B concerns based on his wife’s Indian citizenship and parents in India, his…

  • ISCR Case No. 23-00576Denied2024

    The applicant in this case was a 59-year-old employee of a defense contractor seeking a security clearance. The adjudicative guidelines at issue were Guideline B (Foreign Influence) and Guideline E (P…

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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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