Security clearance...help!

[Anonymous]

I'm changing agencies and have to do a security clearance/background check. On the foreign contacts form, I asked for guidance, and they said list anyone (friend or relative)with whom I had a "close and continuing" relationship in the past seven years. My entire extended family lives in India. I visited them once last May (and before that, maybe five years ago). I keep in touch on Facebook with some cousins. Do I need to include these people? I don't think it is a close and continuing relationship, but I don't need to be the next Jared Kushner.

[Anonymous]

List all the people you saw on your trip.

[Anonymous]

Maybe not every single one, but yes. It's better to disclose than not. You're not going to be able to avoid disclosing that your "entire extended family lives in India".

[Anonymous]

Answer is yes. I was in same sitauation and didn't list. The investigator got really mad when he met with me and it came up.

[Anonymous]

List ALL family that are foreign nationals. If they are US citizens living abroad you don't have to list them (unless they were naturalized - there is a different form for that), but all foreign national family should be disclosed.

[Anonymous]

My dh listed my family in Ireland that he met when we went over and my cousins that he friended on FB.

[Anonymous]

I get it OP, I listed only those who had come to my wedding a few years prior.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, clearances are a privilege and should be for Americans without foreign relations

[Anonymous]

If you do not list them and I found out you travelled 1/2 way across the world to see them last May I would fail your clearance.

[Anonymous]

List them. If you exclude anyone, note in the comments section of your form that you have other family there that you rarely see or contact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, clearances are a privilege and should be for Americans without foreign relations

Wrong. Clearances are for those that can be trusted with national secrets. Having foreign relations doesn't preclude someone from being trustworthy.

OP, the "close and continuing" is for friends and people who are not related to you. All family need to be disclosed to the best of your ability.

[Anonymous]

The fact that you're asking this question honestly scares me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The fact that you're asking this question honestly scares me.

Why is that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact that you're asking this question honestly scares me.

Why is that?

You don't have a basic understanding of protocols for dealing with foreign nationals. Your naïveté will risk safety of nation. Are you working on AWS DOD Cloud?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The fact that you're asking this question honestly scares me.

This makes me think you are either someone who has never applied for a security clearance, or you're a white nationalist. I've been through this process and it was extremely confusing who needed to be listed. In this area of the country, we talk to foreign nationals every single day and it is not clear who needs to be listed. In addition, they want a lot of personal information on these people (like the town they're from in their home country) that it's nearly impossible to know.

OP, list everyone. Your family you saw the last time you visited, your FB cousins, and anyone else. If it takes you an extra week to fill this out, then take the extra week. You cannot list too many people here.