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Ties to Nigeria in decided clearance cases

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

72

hearing-level decisions naming this country in the text

Granted

50%

36 granted · 36 denied or revoked

Ties living in the United States

at least 17

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 Nigeria 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 country51 cases
Sibling in foreign country36 cases
In law in foreign country24 cases
Unspecified foreign relationship21 cases
Spouse dual or foreign citizen9 cases
Extended family in foreign country7 cases
Financial support to foreign relative6 cases

Circumstances credited in granted cases

Circumstances the judge expressly credited among granted Nigeria 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 15 granted cases

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 21-00255Granted2022

    The applicant in this case was a 36-year-old employee of a federal contractor seeking a security clearance. The Department of Defense issued a Statement of Reasons citing security concerns under Guide…

  • ISCR Case No. 16-03514.h1Granted2018

    The judge found that the applicant mitigated the security concerns regarding foreign influence. The applicant's ties to the United States were deemed strong, and there was no evidence that her in-laws…

  • ISCR Case No. 25-00294Denied2026

    The applicant's security clearance was denied due to unresolved financial issues and foreign influence concerns. He admitted to having approximately $23,037 in delinquent debt and acknowledged that hi…

  • ISCR Case No. 24-00213Denied2025

    The applicant in this case was a 37-year-old employee of a defense contractor who sought a security clearance. The Department of Defense issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) citing concerns under Guide…

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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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