Decisions by country · Guideline B · Foreign Influence
Ties to Iran in decided clearance cases
How decided foreign-influence cases involving ties to Iran 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 Iran allegations in these cases (a case can involve several).
- parent in foreign country · 189 cases
- sibling in foreign country · 153 cases
- unspecified foreign relationship · 115 cases
- extended family in foreign country · 61 cases
- in law in foreign country · 54 cases
- spouse dual or foreign citizen · 50 cases
- foreign real estate · 18 cases
What judges credited in granted cases
Circumstances the judge expressly credited among granted Iran cases where that detail was extracted (a subset of the record, so these are raw counts, not rates).
- deep U.S. ties · credited in 41 granted cases
- severed foreign contact · credited in 3 granted cases
- foreign passport surrendered · credited in 2 granted cases
- voluntary disclosure before confrontation · credited in 1 granted case
Recent decided examples
- ISCR 07-00548.h1 granted · 2007The applicant in this case was a 52-year-old electrical engineer employed by a defense contractor, who sought a security clearance after being a U.S. citizen for over 21 years. The Defense Office of H…
- ISCR 17-01872 granted · 2019The applicant in this case was an Iranian citizen by birth who became a U.S. citizen in 2008. He sought to upgrade his existing security clearance from secret to top secret. The Department of Defense …
- ISCR 06-25912.h1 denied · 2007The applicant in this case was a 55-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who immigrated from Iran in 1977 on a student visa. He completed his education in the U.S. and became a naturalized citizen in 199…
- ISCR 07-00097.h1 denied · 2007The applicant in this case was a 57-year-old systems engineer and naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Iran, who sought a security clearance. The Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals (DOHA) issu…
Other countries in the record
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