US citizenship and security clearance

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vik_b

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I have question for people with a US citizenship and a citizenship of another country (for e.g UK).

Does having a citizenship of another country has any impact on getting a security clearance in US.

Do we have to surrender the citizenship of other countires.

If anybody has some experience please share.

vik_b
 
It is not looked at kindly... If you hold another country's passport, you would be lucky to get clearance. If you look at some cases here at http://www.dod.mil/dodgc/doha/industrial/ , you will see that "foreign influence" is a big no-no. If I remember correctly, when I was reading some cases a while back, I read about a case when the person was dual citizen (of Israel or UK?, I cannot remember exactly) and the person was denied. So it would seem that even if you hold a passport from a friendly country (NATO, Australia, etc), your loyalty to this country is suspect.
 
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jllag1 said:
It is not looked at kindly... If you hold another country's passport, you would be lucky to get clearance. If you look at some cases here at http://www.dod.mil/dodgc/doha/industrial/ , you will see that "foreign influence" is a big no-no.
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Thank you. The link was an eye opener.

I appreciate the responses. Come to think of it , it does make common sense that dual citizenship SHOULD pose security concerns :-).

vik_b
 
I couldn't agree with you more. If I was a security officer, unless your loyalty was to US and to US only, you don't deserve a clearance. Nobody should be trusted with US's secrets unless you have allegiance to US only.
 
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