Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline L · Outside Activities
Unspecified Outside Activity
Does unspecified outside activity affect a security clearance?
Basis: 33 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.
Decided cases
33
hearing-level decisions raising this issue
Granted
48%
16 granted · 17 denied or revoked
Recent decided examples
Applicant, a U.S.-based professor and naturalized citizen, answered SOR allegations involving foreign contacts, foreign preference, and outside activities. He admitted several foreign board and busine…
The applicant in this case was seeking a security clearance for a position with a defense contractor. The Department of Defense issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) citing 20 security concerns primaril…
Applicant, a 40-year-old divorced man with no children, sought a security clearance without a hearing. The Government withdrew Guideline B and Guideline L, leaving six Guideline F debts. Three charged…
The judge found that the applicant's foreign influence and outside influence security concerns were mitigated, but financial considerations security concerns were not mitigated. The applicant's access…
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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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