Spouse (foreign citizen or dual citizen)

Official mitigating conditions in play

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 cases, not percentages of everything. Read what each condition says.

What judges 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 89 granted cases
• severed foreign contact · credited in 4 granted cases
• voluntary disclosure before confrontation · credited in 2 granted cases
• foreign assets divested · credited in 1 granted case
• foreign passport surrendered · credited in 1 granted case

Recent decided examples

• ISCR 06-25573 granted · 2008
  The applicant in this case was a 40-year-old project manager employed by a defense contractor, who sought reinstatement of his security clearance after it was revoked. The Defense Office of Hearings a…
• ISCR 06-25719 granted · 2008
  The applicant in this case was a 39-year-old linguist employed by a defense contractor since April 2004, who sought to maintain his security clearance despite concerns related to foreign influence due…
• 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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Related issues under Guideline B

• Parent (citizen/resident of foreign country) · 2,267 cases
• Sibling (citizen/resident of foreign country) · 1,743 cases
• In-law (citizen/resident of foreign country) · 1,017 cases
• Extended Family (uncle/aunt/cousin) in foreign country · 675 cases
• Foreign Real Estate Holding · 496 cases
• Financial Support to Foreign Relative · 408 cases