Foreign Real Estate Holding

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 51 granted cases
• foreign assets divested · credited in 7 granted cases

Recent decided examples

• ISCR 17-01979 granted · 2019
  The applicant in this case was a 49-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Egypt, who applied for a security clearance. The Department of Defense issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) citing …
• ISCR 17-02888 granted · 2019
  The applicant in this case was seeking a public trust position and faced trustworthiness concerns under Guideline B, related to foreign influence. The Department of Defense issued a Statement of Reaso…
• ISCR 06-25743.h1 denied · 2007
  The applicant in this case was a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Taiwan, who sought a security clearance to work on classified projects as a principal software engineer for a defense contract…
• ISCR 06-25959 denied · 2007
  The applicant in this case was a 45-year-old information technology architect who immigrated from Lebanon to the United States in 1983 and became a U.S. citizen in 2002. The Defense Office of Hearings…

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