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Ties to Ukraine in decided clearance cases

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

59

hearing-level decisions naming this country in the text

Granted

56%

33 granted · 26 denied or revoked

Ties living in the United States

at least 10

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 Ukraine allegations in these cases. A case can involve several, and the bars count cases rather than outcomes, so they carry no colour.
Parent in foreign country28 cases
Spouse dual or foreign citizen17 cases
Unspecified foreign relationship15 cases
Friend in foreign country11 cases
In law in foreign country10 cases
Sibling in foreign country10 cases
Extended family in foreign country9 cases

Circumstances credited in granted cases

Circumstances the judge expressly credited among granted Ukraine 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 13 granted cases

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 25-00407Granted2026

    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…

  • ISCR Case No. 22-00337Granted2024

    The applicant in this case was a 47-year-old individual originally from Armenia, who sought a security clearance after submitting a security clearance application in February 2020. The Department of D…

  • ISCR Case No. 23-01672Denied2026

    the incident to Polish authorities if necessary. The applicant, a 43-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Ukraine, sought a security clearance but faced allegations under Guideline B (f…

  • ISCR Case No. 24-00967Denied2025

    The applicant in this case was a 28-year-old individual who was born in Ukraine and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2015. He applied for a security clearance in connection with his employment as …

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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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