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Cohabitation with Foreign National

What the decided record shows for this issue, computed from public DOHA hearing-level decisions. Descriptive history, not a prediction.

Does cohabitation with foreign national affect a security clearance?

Cohabitation with Foreign National is an issue decided under Guideline B, Foreign Influence. In the decided DOHA record it appears in 67 hearing-level cases, and 36% of the 67 decided ended with access granted (24 granted, 43 denied). The mitigating conditions judges credited most often, and example decisions either way, are below.

Basis: 67 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.

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Decided cases

67

hearing-level decisions raising this issue

Granted

36%

24 granted · 43 denied or revoked

Official mitigating conditions cited

The formal mitigating conditions the case profiles identified on this issue, in cases that were granted and in cases that were denied. Each is shown with its paragraph number and a plain name. Read what each condition says.

  • ¶ 8(b) · Deep and longstanding ties to the United States

    In granted cases
    13
    In denied cases
    0

  • ¶ 8(a) · A conflict between foreign and United States interests is unlikely

    In granted cases
    9
    In denied cases
    1

Circumstances credited in granted cases

The specific circumstances the judge expressly credited among the granted cases on this issue where that detail was extracted.
  • deep U.S. ties · credited in 9 granted cases

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 23-01964Granted2024

    The case involves an applicant seeking a security clearance who has lived in Australia for over twenty years. The applicant admitted to allegations under Guidelines B and C but successfully mitigated …

  • ISCR Case No. 21-00084Granted2023

    The applicant in this case was a 53-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen originally from the Philippines, who applied for a security clearance on October 1, 2019. The Defense Counterintelligence and Secu…

  • ISCR Case No. 25-00668Denied2026

    Applicant, a naturalized U.S. citizen and Somali-born linguist, was denied a clearance under Guidelines B and C. The judge found that after returning to Somalia, Applicant reclaimed Somali citizenship…

  • ISCR Case No. 24-02090Denied2026

    The applicant in this case was a 62-year-old engineer employed by a Department of Defense contractor since 2001. The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency issued a Statement of Reasons citin…

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How these numbers are measured

Scope: decided hearing-level cases whose per-allegation profile records this issue, matched to the same issue value the search filters use, so a count here and a filtered search always agree. A case raising several issues counts under each one. The mitigating conditions and the credited circumstances below were extracted for a subset of the record, so both are counts of cases rather than rates. Pages exist only for issues with at least 25 decided cases, and † marks any split built on fewer than 20.

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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