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Ties to Sudan in decided clearance cases

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

39

hearing-level decisions naming this country in the text

Granted

51%

20 granted · 19 denied or revoked

Ties living in the United States

at least 7

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 Sudan allegations in these cases. A case can involve several, and the bars count cases rather than outcomes, so they carry no colour.
Sibling in foreign country27 cases
Parent in foreign country22 cases
Unspecified foreign relationship13 cases
In law in foreign country10 cases
Extended family in foreign country9 cases
Spouse dual or foreign citizen9 cases
Financial support to foreign relative8 cases

Circumstances credited in granted cases

Circumstances the judge expressly credited among granted Sudan 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 6 granted cases

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 19-01580Granted2020

    The applicant in this case was a 64-year-old U.S. citizen originally from Sudan, who applied for a security clearance in January 2018. The Department of Defense issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) on …

  • ISCR Case No. 19-01688Granted2020

    The applicant in this case was a 56-year-old dual citizen of the United States and Sudan, who had applied for a security clearance in connection with a linguist position in Kuwait or Iraq. The Departm…

  • ISCR Case No. 26-00093Denied2026

    The applicant, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Sudan, was denied security clearance due to foreign influence concerns. She has close familial ties to citizens of Sudan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, and pr…

  • ISCR Case No. 19-01891Denied2021

    Applicant was a 60-year-old U.S. citizen who sought a security clearance and had previously lived in Sudan. The Department of Defense (DOD) issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) citing concerns under Gu…

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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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