Guideline A: Allegiance to the United States
Decided hearing cases
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Rarely raised, and rarely decisive. Allegiance is the least-used concern in the record. It appears in none of the 20,585 hearing decisions from 1996 through 2018. The first is dated August 2019, over past membership in a white supremacist organization, and there have been four in all. Of those four, the judge found against the applicant on allegiance once, the concern was withdrawn once, and twice it was resolved in the applicant's favour. Four cases cannot support a grant rate, so none is shown.
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