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Hey, so I am the Canadian, but I was dating someone who recently started a new job with a high security clearance in the US. We've not been able to talk much since, and he definitely can't use social media. I don't know that much about this but I am super curious if we won't be able to be together simply because I am across the border. He said he wouldn't even be able to visit Canada much because of this clearance as well, so is it possible that you just can't date a foreigner at a certain level of clearance?
If anyone has any insight, it would be super appreciated!
It depends. I worked with people who had security clearances. None of their spouses or girlfriends had security clearances.
My son has a security clearance and no one came around to check on me, although, my clearance was higher than his and probably didn't expire. I don't think his coworkers got security clearances on wives and girlfriends. One of the wives, I know for sure, is a foreign national.
On the other hand, I married a guy with a much higher clearance than I had and the FBI gave me another, and much more intense, security screening. One of my friends works in a place where spouses and relationships must go through a security screening. That job happens to be very close to the Canadian border.
The people I know who have a higher clearance than mine all use email and belong to internet discussion groups. I don't use Facebook, so don't know if they do the facebook sort of thing. A generalization, they can use internet and social media but they can't talk about their work.
Not leave the country? Especially when it is to go to Canada? I don't know about that one. With the can't-see-you and can't-use-the-internet, I suspect you are being dumped. There really are jobs where a person can't be a relationship with a foreign national and the foreigner couldn't be told why. I'd tell you to ask him, but if it is a job requirement that he not date a foreign national, he can't tell you.
It's like a unicorn! the oft mentioned, never seen girlfriend from Canada. They really do exist.
I would agree with others who are saying time to move on.
There's actually no restriction on visiting Canada, but you do have to do paperwork every time you leave the country, so maybe that's the issue. Unless they've tightened this up in the *mumble* years since I had one, but I doubt it.
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