Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline B · Foreign Influence

Financial Support to Foreign Relative

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

Does financial support to foreign relative affect a security clearance?

Financial Support to Foreign Relative is an issue decided under Guideline B, Foreign Influence. In the decided DOHA record it appears in 413 hearing-level cases, and 46% of the 413 decided ended with access granted (192 granted, 221 denied). The mitigating conditions judges credited most often, and example decisions either way, are below.

Basis: 413 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.

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.

Official mitigating conditions cited
Condition	In granted cases	In denied cases
¶ 8(a) · A conflict between foreign and United States interests is unlikely	112	7
¶ 8(b) · Deep and longstanding ties to the United States	64	5
¶ 8(c) · Contact so casual and infrequent that there is little risk	18	1
¶ 8(e) · Reporting requirements met promptly	10	1

¶ 8(a) · A conflict between foreign and United States interests is unlikely
In granted cases
112
In denied cases
7
¶ 8(b) · Deep and longstanding ties to the United States
In granted cases
64
In denied cases
5
¶ 8(c) · Contact so casual and infrequent that there is little risk
In granted cases
18
In denied cases
1
¶ 8(e) · Reporting requirements met promptly
In granted cases
10
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 49 granted cases
U.S. military service · credited in 1 granted case

Recent decided examples

ISCR Case No. 22-01391Granted2026
The case involves an applicant seeking security clearance who faced allegations under Guideline B for foreign influence and Guideline H for drug involvement. The applicant admitted to the allegations …
ISCR Case No. 24-00227Granted2025
Applicant, a 53-year-old employee of a defense contractor and a retired U.S. Army Warrant Officer, sought a security clearance after the Department of Defense issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) citin…
ISCR Case No. 26-00093Denied2026
The applicant, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Sudan, was denied security clearance due to foreign influence concerns. She has close familial ties to citizens of Sudan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, and pr…
ISCR Case No. 23-01531Denied2026
Applicant, a Somali-born U.S. citizen and hospital translator, was denied a clearance under Guidelines E and B. The Government proved a pattern of foreign relationships and foreign family ties, includ…

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Related issues under Guideline B

Parent (citizen/resident of foreign country) (2,286)
Sibling (citizen/resident of foreign country) (1,752)
In-law (citizen/resident of foreign country) (1,024)
Spouse (foreign citizen or dual citizen) (799)
Extended Family (uncle/aunt/cousin) in foreign country (684)
Foreign Real Estate Holding (501)

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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