Decisions by country · Guideline B · Foreign Influence
Ties to Russia in decided clearance cases
Decided cases
189
hearing-level decisions naming this country in the text
Granted
38%
72 granted · 117 denied or revoked
Ties living in the United States
at least 37
decisions stating expressly that the relative or contact lives in the United States, so this is a floor
The ties these cases involved
Circumstances credited in granted cases
- deep U.S. ties · credited in 26 granted cases
- severed foreign contact · credited in 2 granted cases
- foreign passport surrendered · credited in 1 granted case
- voluntary disclosure before confrontation · credited in 1 granted case
Recent decided examples
Applicant, a Moldovan-born senior national security analyst and U.S. citizen, faced Guideline B allegations based on family, friend, and financial ties to Moldova, Ukraine, Romania, and Russia. She ad…
The applicant in this case was an employee of a defense contractor who had previously served as a foreign service officer. He faced security concerns under Guidelines L (Outside Activities), B (Foreig…
Applicant, a naturalized U.S. citizen and defense contractor engineer, was denied a security clearance. The judge found Guideline C concerns mitigated because the alleged foreign passport use was cred…
Applicant, a represented engineer employed by a DoW contractor, was denied eligibility for a security clearance under Guideline B. The SOR alleged Russian family ties, a foreign real estate interest t…
Other countries in the record
- China (425)
- Taiwan (296)
- Iran (294)
- Afghanistan (262)
- Iraq (229)
- India (213)
- Israel (194)
- Pakistan (184)
- Lebanon (120)
- South Korea (96)
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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