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. The issue of dual citizenship of Department employees and applicants for employment has recently engendered questions about Department policy. The purpose of this notice is to explain existing Department policy for all employees and to inform potential applicants for both the Civil Service and Foreign Service of the possible effect of dual citizenship on security clearance determinations. Dual citizenship can present a security issue whether to permit access to classified information which affects recruitment, employment, and assignments.
careers.state.gov...
. The evaluation element presented by dual citizenship is that it could raise an issue of possible divided loyalty to the United States. Title 32 C.F.R. 174.5, Adjudicative Guideline C, Foreign Preference, provides:
(a) The concern. When an individual acts in such a way as to indicate a preference for a foreign country over the United States, then he or she may be prone to provide information or make decisions that are harmful to the interests of the United States.
(b) Conditions that could raise a security concern and may be disqualifying include: (1) the exercise of dual citizenship; (2) possession and/or use of a foreign passport; (3) military service or a willingness to bear arms for a foreign country; (4) accepting educational, medical or other benefits, such as retirement and social welfare, from a foreign country; (5) residence in a foreign country to meet citizenship requirements; (6) using foreign citizenship to protect financial or business interests in another country; (7) seeking or holding political office in the foreign country; (8) voting in foreign elections; (9) performing or attempting to perform duties, or otherwise acting, so as to serve the interests of another government in preference to the interests of the United States.careers.state.gov...
Originally posted by mondegreen
are questions being asked know of american dual passport holders that have government jobs with clearences.
Can they be trusted just like regular citizens or should there be more looks into their backgrounds and political stands.
What goes on in the mind of a dual passport government employee
what nation does he or she represent and hold true too!
These are questions being asked know of american dual passport holders that have government jobs with clearences.
Originally posted by Nygdan
Originally posted by mondegreen
are questions being asked know of american dual passport holders that have government jobs with clearences.
Can they be trusted just like regular citizens or should there be more looks into their backgrounds and political stands.
Indeed, to many of those damnable finnian bastard sons of Eire are in America in the first place! And their homecountry that they so often hold dual citizenship with has ties to an international terrorist organization that has killed nearly 2,000 people! The IRA even trained the PLO in terrorist methods! We can't trust anyone! Even look at your name, "Monde Green" Green World, you might even be one of them! There are thousands of irish illegal aliens in the US, they insidiously use their looks to blend in with our population! THey've even got parades honouring their catholic St in nearly every major city in the US! That means they might betray us to the Pope also!
[sarcasm off]
Originally posted by SportyMB
What goes on in the mind of a dual passport government employee
Probably the same thing that goes on in every other person's mind. They're not terrorist, they just have two passports.
what nation does he or she represent and hold true too!
It's not their fault they got got hired and received a security clearance, blame the investigator that issued them a clearance or the department that hired them.
These are questions being asked know of american dual passport holders that have government jobs with clearences.
I agree, we should ask these questions, but before we hire them. Anyone holding a security clearnace is suppose to only have US citizenship, there are a few exceptions. Makes sense, no? I mean, it's only information that could endanger lives and possibly pose a risk to national security.
Currently, all State Dept. employees (and others) working overseas are required to have a security clearance and cannot hold dual citizenship. US passports only. This is the way it has to be, you don't want to have people that obviously have loyalties to other countries having access to your nation's secrets. Not to mention the problems that would arise if there were ever a dual citizen with diplomatic status on assignment that got in trouble or something.
There are many people that have to denounce their citizenship in other countries so the can get government jobs working overseas. I agree with this 100%. It's policy set in place to protect the US's interest, if someone don't like it they can go somewhere else to apply for a job.
Originally posted by mondegreen
How can you be so sure what goes on in the mind of a dual passport government employee
I bet you cannot read minds, for you to say that it speaks of a hasty generalization without a foundation of information.
Why does a American want a dual passport is it for the money, glamore, or the working of foreign Intelligence.
You cannot serve to Masters and anyone that holds dual passport citizenship has to betray one or the other.
We have a jewish Israeli that works in the HomeLandDefense and he or she has a dual passport and is a citizen to both countries.
We have this now at the top ranks of this country
We have a dual passport governement employee who is a Israeli jewish american, who placed a Israeli security company over the contracts of the border survielance deal
Whom does this person serve America or Israel, many will jump on the race card here but those that do are not real Americans, just tools of the terrorists.