Solutions - Foreign National Access

Foreign national access review before controlled access is granted.

A structured intake, sponsorship and scope capture, screening integration, match resolution, and an exportable evidence record — built for facilities that need to decide before someone is on site.

  • Host sponsorship
  • Access scope
  • Evidence pack
Clean-room technicians working on controlled aerospace hardware

Decision before access

Intake, screening, review, approval gate, and evidence export stay on one record.

The flow

Every request moves through the same five steps.

From host sponsorship to a defensible record, a foreign national access request follows one path — so a reviewer, and later an assessor, can read the decision the same way every time.

Workflow spine

Request → Screen → Review → Decide → Prove

  1. 01

    Request

    Structured intake of subject, host, site, scope.

  2. 02

    Screen

    Restricted-party screening at submit.

  3. 03

    Review

    A reviewer resolves every potential match.

  4. 04

    Decide

    Approval gate blocks unresolved risk.

  5. 05

    Prove

    Hash-chained evidence pack for every decision.

What the record carries

Each step appends to an append-only audit log. The evidence pack exports the full chain — intake, screening, review, decision — as JSON, PDF, and ZIP.

Sponsorship

Host sponsorship is the first reviewer signal

Every foreign national access request is anchored to a named host and a specific site. The host states the business reason for the access, the relationship to the subject, and the duration of the sponsorship. Self-sponsorship is not a workflow — a host record and a reviewer are distinct people on every case.

Reviewers see who sponsored the access, when, and the scope the sponsor accepted responsibility for. The sponsorship signal is part of the evidence pack and the audit timeline.

Scope

Access scope is named, not assumed

Each request defines what the subject will reach: the purpose of the visit or assignment, the categories of controlled information or hardware in scope, the specific site, and the host. Scope decisions are explicit. A scope that grows mid-engagement creates a new request and a new decision.

Purpose of access

Reviewers capture the business purpose in a structured field, not free-text in a calendar invite.

Controlled-information categories

Scope names the categories of controlled data or hardware the subject is expected to reach.

Site and host

Each case is anchored to one site and one host. Approval at one site does not implicitly extend to others.

Time-bounded approvals

Reviewers may set explicit expirations. Expired access does not silently roll forward.

Subject context

Citizenship and access context

The intake captures the subject's citizenship and the context relevant to the access decision — host relationship, sponsoring organization, and the access scope the host has accepted. The structured fields are how reviewers read the case; loose notes and email threads stay out of the evidence record.

Passport plaintext is single-use at intake. After submission the server retains only the last four digits, and document originals are stored per-case behind signed URLs — never bundled into the evidence pack.

Screening

Screening and match resolution

The screening workflow is built around the source families most relevant to controlled-access review: OFAC SDN, BIS Entity / Denied Persons / Unverified / Military End-User, and DDTC debarred parties. Screening integration has been validated in controlled testing; production screening is available for configured pilot tenants under a written scope, not enabled by default for every customer.

When a screening run surfaces a potential match, reviewers classify it explicitly: false positive, confirmed, escalated, or resolved by policy exception. Every classification is captured in the audit log. The approval gate re-evaluates after each resolution — a case cannot advance while any match is still open.

Export-control review

Export-control review support

Regulated Access gives the export compliance team a structured workflow for the access decision: the scope, the host, the screening result, and the reviewer's rationale all live on the same case record. When export counsel needs to attach a written determination, it lives on the case alongside the rest of the evidence.

SecurePoint does not determine export jurisdiction. Classification under ITAR, EAR, or any other regime — and the legal determination of whether a transfer is authorized — remain with your export counsel. The product documents the access decision; counsel determines the legal scope.

Evidence

The evidence pack

Every case can export an evidence pack: a JSON manifest covering intake, screening, reviewer actions, and audit events; an optional PDF summary; and an optional ZIP package. The manifest is PII-free by design — names, passport text, document filenames, IP addresses, and user-agent strings are excluded.

Document originals stay behind signed URLs on the case record. Third-party screening source data is not included in the pack. The hash-chained audit log behind every pack means the record can be verified as unmodified.

Continuity

Re-screening

A foreign national access decision is not a one-time check. The re-screening workflow can re-run screening on active cases on a configured schedule. When a re-screen returns a new potential match, the case is flagged for reviewer attention with the same match-resolution structure as the original decision.

Re-screening activity, like the original screening run, is written to the case timeline and surfaced in the evidence pack on next export.

Scope

What we do, and what we do not claim

Regulated Access is commercial pilot ready and available for configured pilot tenants. It is access-decision infrastructure: structured intake, reviewer workflow, screening integration, match resolution, evidence packs, and a hash-chained audit log.

Federal-readiness is a separate track. SecurePoint is not claiming federal authorization, agency-specific deployment boundaries, or formal compliance attestation today. See the security page for the current operating scope.

See it on a sandbox tenant.

Bring a real foreign national access scenario — visiting researcher, sponsored contractor, or vendor on-site — and we'll model it against the intake, screening gate, reviewer console, and evidence pack.