Decisions by country · Guideline B · Foreign Influence
Ties to Saudi Arabia in decided clearance cases
How decided foreign-influence cases involving ties to Saudi Arabia 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 Saudi Arabia allegations in these cases (a case can involve several).
- sibling in foreign country · 14 cases
- parent in foreign country · 13 cases
- unspecified foreign relationship · 6 cases
- friend in foreign country · 5 cases
- in law in foreign country · 4 cases
- foreign employment or pension · 4 cases
- extended family in foreign country · 2 cases
What judges credited in granted cases
Circumstances the judge expressly credited among granted Saudi Arabia cases where that detail was extracted (a subset of the record, so these are raw counts, not rates).
- deep U.S. ties · credited in 3 granted cases
Recent decided examples
- ISCR 17-00832 granted · 2019The applicant in this case was a 56-year-old individual who had familial connections to Saudi Arabia, which raised security concerns under Guideline B (foreign influence). The Statement of Reasons (SO…
- ISCR 18-00266 granted · 2019The applicant in this case was a 45-year-old armed security officer seeking a security clearance. The adjudicative guidelines at issue were Guidelines B and L, which pertain to foreign influence and p…
- ISCR 18-01740 denied · 2020The applicant in this case was a 51-year-old manufacturing planner employed by a major aerospace company since 2007, seeking a security clearance to work on defense contracts. The Department of Defens…
- ISCR 19-02091 denied · 2020nd he attended college in the United States on a $200,000 scholarship from the Saudi Arabian government, which he received in 2011. The Department of Defense (DOD) issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) …
Other countries in the record
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