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Employment or Service with a Foreign National, Org, or Entity

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

Does employment or service with a foreign national, org, or entity affect a security clearance?

Employment or Service with a Foreign National, Org, or Entity is an issue decided under Guideline L, Outside Activities. In the decided DOHA record it appears in 26 hearing-level cases, and 50% of the 26 decided ended with access granted (13 granted, 13 denied). The mitigating conditions judges credited most often, and example decisions either way, are below.

Basis: 26 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.

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Decided cases

26

hearing-level decisions raising this issue

Granted

50%

13 granted · 13 denied or revoked

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 23-01669Granted2024

    The applicant in this case was an employee of a defense contractor who had previously served as a foreign service officer. He faced security concerns under Guidelines L (Outside Activities), B (Foreig…

  • ISCR Case No. 18-00791Granted2019

    The applicant in this case was a 50-year-old U.S. citizen and retired technical sergeant from the Air Force, who served as the owner and CEO of a defense contractor. The Department of Defense (DOD) ra…

  • ISCR Case No. 24-01091Denied2025

    The applicant in this case sought a security clearance and was evaluated under Guideline B (foreign influence) and Guideline L (outside activities). The Statement of Reasons (SOR) outlined concerns pr…

  • ISCR Case No. 21-02921Denied2023

    The applicant in this case was a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and contractor who submitted a security clearance application in November 2019. The Department of Defense (DoD) issued a Statement of Reasons …

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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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