I’ve had a security clearance in the past and there’s no way a foreign national passes. I got questioned significantly about a family member who was a citizen of another country.
I wonder if it’s just a matter of time.
> He also separately founded and served as chief executive of a China-based startup company that aspired to train “large AI models powered by supercomputing chips,” the indictment said.
> Prosecutors say Ding did not disclose either affiliation to Google, which described him Wednesday as a junior employee.
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They likely did... he did these things after joining Google as a junior employee.
https://www.eeoc.gov/national-origin-discrimination
Discriminating against a national origin is illegal as it is a protected class.
Unless the material is classified under ITAR ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_... ) there is no reason to do a security clearance review of a junior developer with a valid work visa.
For jobs in the US, yes.
In my example, the US won’t grant security clearance to a foreign national. Even if you are a permanent resident, you don’t get clearance without citizenship.