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Ties to Lebanon in decided clearance cases

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

120

hearing-level decisions naming this country in the text

Granted

50%

60 granted · 60 denied or revoked

Ties living in the United States

at least 20

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 Lebanon allegations in these cases. A case can involve several, and the bars count cases rather than outcomes, so they carry no colour.
Parent in foreign country74 cases
Sibling in foreign country66 cases
Unspecified foreign relationship47 cases
In law in foreign country33 cases
Foreign real estate26 cases
Extended family in foreign country24 cases
Spouse dual or foreign citizen18 cases

Circumstances credited in granted cases

Circumstances the judge expressly credited among granted Lebanon 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 16 granted cases
  • severed foreign contact · credited in 2 granted cases

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 23-01249Granted2024

    The applicant in this case was a 28-year-old Flight Controls Engineer seeking a security clearance with the Department of Defense. The Statement of Reasons (SOR) raised concerns under Guideline B (For…

  • ISCR Case No. 22-02397Granted2024

    The applicant in this case was a 44-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who had been working as a linguist and cultural advisor for a defense contractor stationed overseas. The Department of Defense iss…

  • ISCR Case No. 23-00555Denied2024

    The applicant in this case was a 58-year-old network engineer employed by a defense contractor since November 2021, seeking a security clearance to enhance his career prospects. The Department of Defe…

  • ISCR Case No. 23-01334Denied2024

    The applicant in this case was a 36-year-old individual seeking a security clearance to resume employment with a Defense contractor. The adjudicative guideline at issue was Guideline B, concerning for…

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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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