Statistics
Outcome patterns across decided public DOHA cases. The filters below narrow the view by concern, time period, representation, and judge. Descriptive statistics, not predictions. Data through September 2026.
Reference dates for comparisons: the current adjudicative guidelines took effect in June 2017, and updated marijuana guidance was issued in December 2021.
Key findings
Cases in view
6
decided public DOHA cases
Hearing decisions
6
decided after a hearing or on the written record
Appeal decisions
0
Appeal Board decisions, counted separately
Most common concern
Guideline F
Financial Considerations · 27% granted of 606 decided
Decisions span 2023 to 2023
Using this page: the filters above narrow every section, selecting a chart row opens the cases underneath it, and each section downloads as a CSV file.
Grant rates over time
How often clearances were granted, by year.
17% granted overall (1 of 6).
Swipe the chart for earlier years. Select any year to filter the page to it.
How to read this chart
Grey bars count the decisions published in each year, read against the left axis. The blue line is the grant rate for that year, read against the right axis, and it is drawn only for years with 20 or more decided cases. The shaded band over 1999 and 2000 marks two years when very few decisions were published: DOHA published few decisions online before 2002, and almost none survive for those two years. The dashed lines mark the June 2017 adjudicative guidelines and the December 2021 marijuana guidance taking effect. They do not claim that either change caused what the chart shows.
Outcomes by concern
How each type of concern was resolved.
- F · Financial Considerations
27% granted · 165 granted · 441 denied
- Financial (unspecified)
26% granted · 122 granted · 343 denied
- Credit-card debt
34% granted · 58 granted · 114 denied
- Student-loan debt
30% granted · 39 granted · 91 denied
- Failure to file taxes
24% granted · 31 granted · 98 denied
- Medical debt
30% granted · 36 granted · 85 denied
- Auto-loan debt
24% granted · 27 granted · 87 denied
- Unpaid taxes
26% granted · 27 granted · 78 denied
- Utility / phone debt
33% granted · 20 granted · 41 denied
- Bankruptcy filing
27% granted · 12 granted · 33 denied
- Mortgage / home-loan debt
40% granted · 18 granted · 27 denied
- Personal-loan debt
45% granted · 20 granted · 24 denied
- Child support debt
21% granted · 7 granted · 26 denied
- Civil judgment against applicant
21% granted · 4 granted · 15 denied
- Financial (unspecified)
- E · Personal Conduct
18% granted · 52 granted · 234 denied
- Falsified the security form
15% granted · 14 granted · 77 denied
- Omission / failure to disclose
16% granted · 13 granted · 69 denied
- Personal conduct (unspecified)
15% granted · 12 granted · 67 denied
- Questionable judgment
21% granted · 16 granted · 61 denied
- Workplace rules violation
17% granted · 7 granted · 34 denied
- Lack of candor in an interview
8% granted · 3 granted · 35 denied
- Pattern of dishonesty / rule violations
19% granted · 4 granted · 17 denied
- Falsified the security form
- H · Drug Involvement and Substance Misuse
23% granted · 49 granted · 167 denied
- Marijuana
21% granted · 41 granted · 150 denied
- Drug involvement (unspecified)
11% granted · 8 granted · 64 denied
- Psilocybin
28% granted · 8 granted · 21 denied
- Cocaine
14% granted · 4 granted · 24 denied
- Drug test failure
8% granted · 2 granted · 23 denied
- Stated intent to use again
25% granted · 5 granted · 15 denied
- Drug distribution / dealing
5% granted · 1 granted · 18 denied
- MDMA
17% granted · 3 granted · 15 denied
- Marijuana
- J · Criminal Conduct
19% granted · 24 granted · 103 denied
- Criminal conduct (unspecified)
21% granted · 12 granted · 46 denied
- DUI / DWI (criminal)
10% granted · 4 granted · 38 denied
- Drug related criminal charge
19% granted · 6 granted · 26 denied
- Assault / battery
27% granted · 8 granted · 22 denied
- Domestic violence
13% granted · 2 granted · 14 denied
- Criminal conduct (unspecified)
- G · Alcohol Consumption
19% granted · 14 granted · 59 denied
- DUI / DWI (alcohol)
22% granted · 10 granted · 35 denied
- Alcohol incident (unspecified)
24% granted · 8 granted · 26 denied
- Binge / intoxication pattern
19% granted · 3 granted · 13 denied
- DUI / DWI (alcohol)
- B · Foreign Influence
36% granted · 24 granted · 42 denied
- Foreign relationship (unspecified)
31% granted · 11 granted · 25 denied
- Parent in a foreign country
52% granted · 16 granted · 15 denied
- Sibling in a foreign country
48% granted · 11 granted · 12 denied
- Foreign relationship (unspecified)
- D · Sexual Behavior
20% granted · 7 granted · 28 denied
Too few cases to break this concern into specific issues.
- I · Psychological Conditions
31% granted · 11 granted · 24 denied
- Psychological condition (unspecified)
42% granted · 8 granted · 11 denied
- Psychological condition (unspecified)
- M · Use of Information Technology
8% granted · 1 granted · 11 denied
Too few cases to break this concern into specific issues.
- K · Handling Protected Information
0% granted · 0 granted · 11 denied
Too few cases to break this concern into specific issues.
- C · Foreign Preference
17% granted · 1 granted · 5 denied
Too few cases to break this concern into specific issues.
- L · Outside Activities
0% granted · 0 granted · 2 denied
Too few cases to break this concern into specific issues.
- A · Allegiance to the United States
50% granted · 1 granted · 1 denied
Too few cases to break this concern into specific issues.
† marks fewer than 20 cases, too few to be reliable. A case can raise several concerns, so the rows overlap.
Mitigations judges credited most
How often each mitigation was expressly accepted by the judge, not merely claimed, across the cases in this view. This is a count of how often something was credited, so the bars are neutral: they carry no outcome.
No credited mitigations in this view.
Outcomes by representation
Whether represented and self-represented applicants were granted at different rates.
| Representation | Cases | Granted | Denied | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self-represented | 6 | 1 | 5 |
- Cases
- 6
- Granted
- 1
- Denied
- 5
- Grant rate
An association, not proof of cause: the groups being compared differ in many ways. Select a row to filter the page.
Outcomes by judge
How the cases each judge decided were resolved.
| Administrative Judge | Cases | Granted | Denied | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin R. Dorsey | 2 | 0 | 2 | Filter |
| Candace Le'i Garcia | 1 | 0 | 1 | Filter |
| Darlene Lokey Anderson | 1 | 0 | 1 | Filter |
| LeRoy F. Foreman | 1 | 1 | 0 | Filter |
| Pamela C. Benson | 1 | 0 | 1 | Filter |
† marks judges with fewer than 20 decided cases in this window. Judges hear different mixes of cases, so these rates describe the decided record, not the judges.
Appeal outcomes
How appealed decisions were treated by the Appeal Board.
No appeal decisions match this selection.
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Professional plan detailsPublications and measured series
Ongoing analyses computed from the decided record, each on its own page, with its method and the counts behind every rate.
- Measured timelines
How long each stage took, measured from dates stated in the decisions.
- Time since the conduct
How long before the decision the last incident occurred.
- Candor in the record
How falsification and omission allegations were resolved.
- Veterans in the record
Decisions that state United States military service, counted by branch.
- Decisions by country
Foreign-influence decisions arranged by the country involved.
- The Issue Encyclopedia
Every specific issue inside each guideline, with its decided record.
- The statutory bars
The bars set by statute, and how they appear in decided cases.
- Docket reports
The decided record summarized the same way every quarter and every year.
Granted ÷ decided; † marks groups under 20 cases. Full methodology
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.
Decided public cases: descriptive, never a prediction.