Decisions by country · Guideline B · Foreign Influence
Ties to Lebanon in decided clearance cases
How decided foreign-influence cases involving ties to Lebanon 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 Lebanon allegations in these cases (a case can involve several).
- parent in foreign country · 74 cases
- sibling in foreign country · 66 cases
- unspecified foreign relationship · 47 cases
- in law in foreign country · 33 cases
- foreign real estate · 26 cases
- extended family in foreign country · 24 cases
- spouse dual or foreign citizen · 18 cases
What judges credited in granted cases
Circumstances the judge expressly credited among granted Lebanon cases where that detail was extracted (a subset of the record, so these are raw counts, not rates).
- deep U.S. ties · credited in 16 granted cases
- severed foreign contact · credited in 2 granted cases
Recent decided examples
- ISCR 07-00219 granted · 2007The applicant in this case was a 47-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen, originally from Lebanon, who sought a security clearance for his position as an Electrical Engineer with a defense contractor. Th…
- ISCR 18-02285 granted · 2019The applicant in this case was a 24-year-old systems engineer who sought a security clearance to work for a defense contractor. The Department of Defense issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) citing con…
- ISCR 06-25891 denied · 2007The applicant in this case was a dual citizen of Lebanon and the United States, having acquired U.S. citizenship in August 2003. The Department of Defense's Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals (DOH…
- ISCR 06-25959 denied · 2007The applicant in this case was a 45-year-old information technology architect who immigrated from Lebanon to the United States in 1983 and became a U.S. citizen in 2002. The Defense Office of Hearings…
Other countries in the record
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