Decisions by country · Guideline B · Foreign Influence
Ties to Iraq in decided clearance cases
How decided foreign-influence cases involving ties to Iraq 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 Iraq allegations in these cases (a case can involve several).
- parent in foreign country · 143 cases
- sibling in foreign country · 113 cases
- unspecified foreign relationship · 48 cases
- in law in foreign country · 44 cases
- extended family in foreign country · 30 cases
- financial support to foreign relative · 30 cases
- foreign real estate · 26 cases
What judges credited in granted cases
Circumstances the judge expressly credited among granted Iraq cases where that detail was extracted (a subset of the record, so these are raw counts, not rates).
- deep U.S. ties · credited in 62 granted cases
- foreign assets divested · credited in 2 granted cases
- U.S. military service · credited in 2 granted cases
- foreign passport surrendered · credited in 1 granted case
- severed foreign contact · credited in 1 granted case
Recent decided examples
- ISCR 07-01195 granted · 2008The applicant in this case was a 54-year-old individual originally from Algosh, Iraq, who sought a security clearance after immigrating to the United States in 1992 due to religious persecution. The D…
- ISCR 16-01164 granted · 2019The applicant in this case was a 56-year-old linguist employed by Department of Defense contractors in Iraq since April 2015. The Department of Defense (DOD) issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) citing…
- ISCR 17-03265 denied · 2018The applicant in this case was a 38-year-old linguist who had worked for U.S. contractors in Iraq. He was born in Iraq and emigrated to the United States in 1997, becoming a U.S. citizen in 2007. The …
- ISCR 18-01471 denied · 2019The applicant in this case was a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Iraq, who sought a security clearance in connection with a job offer as a linguist. The Department of Defense raised security …
Other countries in the record
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