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Concern. A security risk may exist when an individual's immediate
family, including cohabitants, and other persons to whom he or she may
be bound by affection, influence, or obligation are not citizens of the
United States or may be subject to duress. These situations could create
the potential for foreign influence that could result in the compromise
of classified information. Contacts with citizens of other countries or
financial interests in other countries are also relevant to security determinations
if they make an individual potentially vulnerable to coercion, exploitation,
or pressure.
Conditions
that could raise a security concern and may be disqualifying include:
a. An
immediate family member, or a person to whom the individual has close
ties of affection or obligation, is a citizen of, or resident or
present in, a foreign country;
b. Sharing
living quarters with a person or persons, regardless of their citizenship
status, if the potential for adverse foreign influence or duress
exists;
c. Relatives,
cohabitants, or associates who are connected with any foreign government;
d. Failing
to report, where required, associations with foreign nationals;
e, Unauthorized
association with a suspected or known collaborator or employee of
a foreign intelligence service;
f. Conduct
which may make the individual vulnerable to coercion, exploitation,
or pressure by a foreign government;
g. Indications
that representatives or nationals from a foreign country are acting
to increase the vulnerability of the individual to possible future
exploitation, coercion or pressure;
h. A substantial
financial interest in a country, or in any foreign owned or operated
business that could make the individual vulnerable to foreign influence.
Conditions
that could mitigate security concerns include:
a. A determination
that the immediate family member(s) (spouse, father, mother, sons,
daughters, brothers, sisters), cohabitant, or associate(s) in question
are not agents of a foreign power or in a position to be exploited
by a foreign power in a way that could force the individual to choose
between loyalty to the person(s) involved and the United States;
b. Contacts
with foreign citizens are the result of official U.S. Government
business;
c. Contact
and correspondence with foreign citizens are casual and infrequent;
d. The
individual has promptly complied with existing agency requirements
regarding the reporting of contacts, requests, or threats from persons
or organizations from a foreign country;
e. Foreign
financial interests are minimal and not sufficient to affect the
individual's security responsibilities.
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Information Courtesy of Defense Security Service (DSS)
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