Decisions by country · Guideline B · Foreign Influence
Ties to Syria in decided clearance cases
How decided foreign-influence cases involving ties to Syria 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 Syria allegations in these cases (a case can involve several).
- parent in foreign country · 23 cases
- sibling in foreign country · 21 cases
- unspecified foreign relationship · 18 cases
- in law in foreign country · 13 cases
- spouse dual or foreign citizen · 8 cases
- financial support to foreign relative · 8 cases
- extended family in foreign country · 5 cases
What judges credited in granted cases
Circumstances the judge expressly credited among granted Syria cases where that detail was extracted (a subset of the record, so these are raw counts, not rates).
- deep U.S. ties · credited in 8 granted cases
- severed foreign contact · credited in 1 granted case
Recent decided examples
- ISCR 18-00216 granted · 2019The applicant in this case was a contractor for the Department of Defense (DOD) who sought a security clearance. The adjudicative guideline at issue was Guideline B, concerning Foreign Influence. The …
- ISCR 18-01833 granted · 2019The applicant in this case was a 37-year-old engineer for a defense contractor who had held a top secret security clearance since 2014. The Department of Defense issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) ci…
- ISCR 19-01556 denied · 2019Applicant was a 34-year-old information technology security officer with strong familial ties to Syria, a country experiencing civil unrest. The Department of Defense (DOD) issued a Statement of Reaso…
- ISCR 19-02921 denied · 2021Applicant contested the Department of Defense's (DOD) decision to deny his eligibility for a security clearance based on foreign influence concerns. The Statement of Reasons (SOR) identified security …
Other countries in the record
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