Decisions by country · Guideline B · Foreign Influence
Ties to Vietnam in decided clearance cases
Decided cases
95
hearing-level decisions naming this country in the text
Granted
75%
71 granted · 24 denied or revoked
Ties living in the United States
at least 20
decisions stating expressly that the relative or contact lives in the United States, so this is a floor
The ties these cases involved
Circumstances credited in granted cases
- deep U.S. ties · credited in 22 granted cases
- contact disclosed to authorities · credited in 1 granted case
- foreign assets divested · credited in 1 granted case
- severed foreign contact · credited in 1 granted case
Recent decided examples
The applicant, a naturalized U.S. citizen, has immediate family members in Vietnam, including two sisters and uncles. The judge found that while these ties raised potential foreign influence concerns,…
The judge found that the applicant's foreign ties, including family members in Vietnam, did not pose a security risk. The applicant's relationships were characterized as unlikely to lead to coercion o…
The judge found that the applicant mitigated the foreign influence concerns related to his family members in Vietnam. The applicant's ties to his mother and siblings were acknowledged, but the judge c…
The judge found against the applicant on the foreign influence concerns under Guideline B, citing the applicant's familial ties to Vietnam, which posed a heightened risk of foreign influence. The appl…
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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