Important Information for Military with Clearance

[AJG & ESD 6]

While reading the following link:

US Military Personnel on the forum board about military personnel, it reminded me of my last marriage to a Russian Foreign National, and how my clearance was almost pulled because I knew nothing about having to report it.

As I do not know the regulations for the other services, I am writing this for ALL ARMY personnel, but I can imagine that the regulations would relatively be the same. If you have a clearance OF ANY KIND, you are first required to report your foreign travel, and secondly, it would be wise to report intent to marry a foreign national to your unit Security Manager as per Army Regulation 380-67. As per para 9-9, it's your unit's security manager's responsiblity to record all pertinent information of your trip, and provide a Foreign Travel Brief. It depends on the unit's Standing Operating Procedure and your clearance level as to how they handle your particular situation. If you read the reg, it says if you don't report it, your clearance can get pulled. Having a SCI (You know who you are, if you don't, it probably doesn't apply to you), having a foreign wife may give you problems with your clearance. I don't mean to discourage anyone as there are always waivers granted, etc., just putting the information out there because when it happened to me, no one ever told me before hand, and my security manager was not so keen on the regulation to explain to me the possible consequences of my actions.

Here's a forum link by more people that have gone through the experience on a Federal Forum Board Federal Forum Board Link

It also probably would not hurt to get a letter of Command sponsorship from your chain of command to throw in your I-129F packet, or your proof of continued relationship. Good luck!

[Xanax 349]

It's probably good to pop this in the military section of this forum (as well or instead of the general k-1 forum)

[Inky 1,110]

Same goes for Air Force. Have to go through forms and special clearance and get a letter that states you are able to marry the person you choose to marry. Then every year or so you have to fill out all the forms and stuff again.

The only thing I do not know and have been looking for is if when the FN becomes a US citizen by naturalization if they are able to update this and not have to do the forms anymore. I read somewhere that they do in fact need to update the forms stating the FN is now a US citizen but cannot find it anymore.

[AMKIDD 0]

Would this apply to DoD civilians also?