Decisions by country · Guideline B · Foreign Influence
Ties to Taiwan in decided clearance cases
How decided foreign-influence cases involving ties to Taiwan 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 Taiwan allegations in these cases (a case can involve several).
- parent in foreign country · 199 cases
- sibling in foreign country · 130 cases
- unspecified foreign relationship · 123 cases
- in law in foreign country · 98 cases
- spouse dual or foreign citizen · 38 cases
- friend in foreign country · 34 cases
- foreign real estate · 29 cases
What judges credited in granted cases
Circumstances the judge expressly credited among granted Taiwan cases where that detail was extracted (a subset of the record, so these are raw counts, not rates).
- deep U.S. ties · credited in 64 granted cases
- foreign assets divested · credited in 5 granted cases
- foreign passport surrendered · credited in 2 granted cases
- severed foreign contact · credited in 2 granted cases
- voluntary disclosure before confrontation · credited in 1 granted case
Recent decided examples
- ISCR 06-25859.h1 granted · 2007The applicant in this case was a 52-year-old computer software engineer employed by a defense contractor. Originally from Taiwan, he immigrated to the United States in 1981 and became a U.S. citizen i…
- ISCR 07-01191 granted · 2009The applicant in this case was a 30-year-old systems engineer for a defense contractor seeking a security clearance. The allegations against him, outlined under Guideline B, included having an uncle w…
- ISCR 06-25743.h1 denied · 2007The applicant in this case was a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Taiwan, who sought a security clearance to work on classified projects as a principal software engineer for a defense contract…
- ISCR 18-00852 denied · 2019The applicant in this case was a 45-year-old individual born in Taipei, Taiwan, who sought a security clearance under Guideline B due to concerns regarding his family ties to Taiwan. The Department of…
Other countries in the record
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