Financial Support to Foreign Relative

Official mitigating conditions cited

The formal mitigating conditions (by official paragraph) that case profiles identified on this issue, in cases that were granted vs denied. Extracted for a subset of cases; counts are numbers of cases, not rates. Read what each condition says.

Circumstances credited in granted cases

Specific circumstances the judge expressly credited, among the granted cases on this issue where that detail was extracted (a subset of the record, so these are raw counts, not rates).

• deep U.S. ties · credited in 49 granted cases
• U.S. military service · credited in 1 granted case

Recent decided examples

• ISCR 23-01331 granted · 2023
  The applicant in this case was a 28-year-old systems analyst employed by a defense contractor since August 2022. She was born in Colombia, became a U.S. citizen in March 2018, and had family members r…
• ISCR 06-25936.h1 granted · 2007
  The applicant in this case was a 54-year-old employee of a defense contractor who had lived in the United States since the 1970s and became a U.S. citizen in 1985. The adjudicative guidelines at issue…
• ISCR 06-25891 denied · 2007
  The applicant in this case was a dual citizen of Lebanon and the United States, having acquired U.S. citizenship in August 2003. The Department of Defense's Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals (DOH…
• ISCR 06-25979 denied · 2007
  The applicant in this case was a 35-year-old woman who became a naturalized U.S. citizen in March 2004 after being born in Morocco. She applied for a security clearance but faced allegations under Gui…

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