Decisions by country · Guideline B · Foreign Influence
Ties to Hong Kong in decided clearance cases
How decided foreign-influence cases involving ties to Hong Kong resolved, from the public record. Ties to any country are not themselves disqualifying; every case turns on its own facts. This is decided history, never a prediction, and it says nothing about any nationality or community.
The ties these cases involved
The relationship kinds identified on Hong Kong allegations in these cases (a case can involve several).
- parent in foreign country · 38 cases
- sibling in foreign country · 31 cases
- unspecified foreign relationship · 22 cases
- extended family in foreign country · 13 cases
- in law in foreign country · 13 cases
- friend in foreign country · 12 cases
- foreign bank account or investment · 7 cases
What judges credited in granted cases
Circumstances the judge expressly credited among granted Hong Kong cases where that detail was extracted (a subset of the record, so these are raw counts, not rates).
- deep U.S. ties · credited in 17 granted cases
- severed foreign contact · credited in 1 granted case
Recent decided examples
- ISCR 07-01191 granted · 2009The applicant in this case was a 30-year-old systems engineer for a defense contractor seeking a security clearance. The allegations against him, outlined under Guideline B, included having an uncle w…
- ISCR 18-01247 granted · 2019The applicant, a 56-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen originally from China, sought to retain a security clearance for his position as a Senior Manufacturing Engineer with a defense contractor. The De…
- ISCR 20-03202 denied · 2022The applicant in this case was a 42-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen originally from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). She applied for a security clearance on November 8, 2018, but was issued a S…
- ISCR 21-00069 denied · 2022The applicant in this case was a 36-year-old civilian analyst for a defense contractor seeking a security clearance. The adjudicative guideline at issue was foreign influence, specifically concerning …
Other countries in the record
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