Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline B · Foreign Influence
Failure to Disclose Foreign Association
Does failure to disclose foreign association affect a security clearance?
Basis: 84 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.
Decided cases
84
hearing-level decisions raising this issue
Granted
42%
35 granted · 49 denied or revoked
Official mitigating conditions cited
| Condition | In granted cases | In denied cases |
|---|---|---|
| ¶ 8(a) · A conflict between foreign and United States interests is unlikely | 16 | 0 |
| ¶ 8(b) · Deep and longstanding ties to the United States | 10 | 0 |
| ¶ 8(c) · Contact so casual and infrequent that there is little risk | 8 | 1 |
| ¶ 8(e) · Reporting requirements met promptly | 5 | 0 |
¶ 8(a) · A conflict between foreign and United States interests is unlikely
- In granted cases
- 16
- In denied cases
- 0
¶ 8(b) · Deep and longstanding ties to the United States
- In granted cases
- 10
- In denied cases
- 0
¶ 8(c) · Contact so casual and infrequent that there is little risk
- In granted cases
- 8
- In denied cases
- 1
¶ 8(e) · Reporting requirements met promptly
- In granted cases
- 5
- In denied cases
- 0
Circumstances credited in granted cases
- deep U.S. ties · credited in 9 granted cases
- foreign passport surrendered · credited in 3 granted cases
- contact disclosed to authorities · credited in 1 granted case
Recent decided examples
The applicant in this case was a 56-year-old defense contractor seeking to reacquire national security eligibility and a security clearance after previously holding a clearance without incident. The D…
The judge found that the applicant's foreign ties to Iraq and Iran raised security concerns under Guideline B, but ultimately determined that these ties were outweighed by her strong connections and l…
The applicant in this case was a 41-year-old dual citizen of Djibouti and the United States, who applied for a security clearance to work as a linguist for a federal contractor. The Department of Defe…
The applicant in this case was a 68-year-old dual citizen of the United States and Israel, who had served in the Israeli Defense Forces and was employed as a principal software engineer with a defense…
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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.
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- Figures are descriptive counts over decided, public DOHA ISCR decisions, never predictions or assessments of any pending case.
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