I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6355 
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend honorary citizenship 
to otherwise qualified noncitizens who enlisted in the Philippines and 
died while serving on active duty with the United States Armed Forces 
during certain periods of hostilities, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 2, 2025 
Mr. CISNEROS (for himself, Mr. SESSIONS, Ms. CHU, and Mr. SCOTT of Vir-
ginia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend 
honorary citizenship to otherwise qualified noncitizens 
who enlisted in the Philippines and died while serving 
on active duty with the United States Armed Forces 
during certain periods of hostilities, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Corporal Fernando 
Ruiz Baltazar Posthumous Citizenship Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. GRANTING OF POSTHUMOUS CITIZENSHIP TO OTH-
ERWISE QUALIFIED NONCITIZENS WHO EN-
LISTED IN THE PHILIPPINES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 329A(b) of the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1440–1(b)) is amended 
to read as follows: 
‘‘(b) NONCITIZENS
ELIGIBLE
FOR
POSTHUMOUS 
CITIZENSHIP.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—A person referred to in 
subsection (a) is a person who, while an alien or a 
noncitizen national of the United States— 
‘‘(A) served honorably in an active-duty 
status in the military, air, or naval forces of the 
United States during any period described in 
the first sentence of section 329(a); 
‘‘(B) died as a result of injury or disease 
incurred in or aggravated by that service; and 
‘‘(C) either— 
‘‘(i) satisfied the requirements of 
clause (1) or (2) of the first sentence of 
section 329(a); or 
‘‘(ii) enlisted, reenlisted, extended en-
listment, or was inducted in the Phil-
ippines and died during the period begin-
ning September 1, 1939, and ending De-
cember 31, 1946. 
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‘‘(2) DETERMINATION OF SATISFACTION OF RE-
QUIREMENTS.—The executive department under 
which a person described in paragraph (1) served 
shall determine whether the person satisfied the re-
quirements of subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C)(ii) of 
paragraph (1). 
‘‘(3) POSTHUMOUS BENEFITS.—In the case of a 
person to which paragraph (1)(C)(ii) applies— 
‘‘(A) section 319(d) shall not apply; and 
‘‘(B) section 1703 of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 (Public 
Law 108–136; 117 Stat. 1693; 8 U.S.C. 1151 
note) shall not apply.’’. 
(b) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENTS.—Section 
329A(c)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1440–1(c)(2)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (A)(i), by inserting ‘‘(or, in 
the case of an individual to which clause (ii) of sub-
section (b)(1)(C) applies, the date of the enactment 
of such clause (ii))’’ after ‘‘the date of enactment of 
this section’’; 
(2) by striking subparagraph (B) and inserting 
the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(B) the request is accompanied by a duly 
authenticated certificate from the executive de-
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partment under which the person served which 
states that the person satisfied the require-
ments of— 
‘‘(i) subparagraphs (A) and (B) of 
subsection (b)(1); and 
‘‘(ii) 
if 
applicable, 
subparagraph 
(C)(ii) of subsection (b)(1); and’’; and 
(3) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘of sub-
section 
(b)(3)’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘of 
subsection 
(b)(1)(C)(i)’’. 
Æ 
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