Decisions by country · Guideline B · Foreign Influence
Ties to Mexico in decided clearance cases
How decided foreign-influence cases involving ties to Mexico 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 Mexico allegations in these cases (a case can involve several).
- parent in foreign country · 12 cases
- in law in foreign country · 10 cases
- spouse dual or foreign citizen · 9 cases
- sibling in foreign country · 7 cases
- extended family in foreign country · 6 cases
- cohabitation with foreign national · 4 cases
- unspecified foreign relationship · 4 cases
What judges credited in granted cases
Circumstances the judge expressly credited among granted Mexico cases where that detail was extracted (a subset of the record, so these are raw counts, not rates).
- deep U.S. ties · credited in 4 granted cases
Recent decided examples
- ISCR 20-02788 granted · 2021Applicant, a 22-year-old self-employed business owner, sought a security clearance to work as an aircraft structural mechanic for a defense contractor. The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Age…
- ISCR 24-00227 granted · 2025Applicant, a 53-year-old employee of a defense contractor and a retired U.S. Army Warrant Officer, sought a security clearance after the Department of Defense issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) citin…
- ISCR 15-00693.a1 denied · 2016The applicant in this case was a long-term government contractor who sought a security clearance but was denied due to concerns under Guideline B (Foreign Influence) and Guideline E (Personal Conduct)…
- ISCR 21-00896 denied · 2022The applicant in this case was a 49-year-old engineer who immigrated from Peru to the United States in 1998 and became a U.S. citizen in 2004. He sought to retain his security clearance after being is…
Other countries in the record
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