I 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6198 
To provide that no alien may be naturalized as a citizen of the United 
States until such time as the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement completes the digitization of all remaining paper-based fin-
gerprint records for inclusion in the Automated Biometric Identification 
System (IDENT) of the Department of Homeland Security, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 
Mr. CULBERSON (for himself, Mr. MCCAUL, Mr. SMITH of Texas, Mr. OLSON, 
Mr. CHABOT, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. BARLETTA, and Mr. GOHMERT) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Ju-
diciary 
A BILL 
To provide that no alien may be naturalized as a citizen 
of the United States until such time as the Director 
of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement com-
pletes the digitization of all remaining paper-based fin-
gerprint records for inclusion in the Automated Biomet-
ric Identification System (IDENT) of the Department 
of Homeland Security, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. LIMITATION ON THE NATURALIZATION OF 
ALIENS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, no alien may be naturalized as a citizen of 
the United States under chapter 2 of title III of the Immi-
gration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1421 et seq.) until 
such time as the Director of U.S. Immigration and Cus-
toms Enforcement completes the digitization of all remain-
ing paper-based fingerprint records for inclusion in the 
Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT) of 
the Department of Homeland Security. 
(b) PENDING APPLICATIONS.—Upon the completion 
of the requirement under subsection (a), the Secretary of 
Homeland Security shall, prior to naturalizing as a citizen 
of the United States an alien who has an application for 
naturalization pending on the date of the enactment of 
this Act, review the alien’s eligibility for naturalization 
using the updated Automated Biometric Identification 
System (IDENT). 
(c) REVOCATION OF NATURALIZATION.—Section 340 
of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1451) 
is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(i) In the case that an officer or employee of the 
Department of Homeland Security has good cause to be-
lieve that a naturalized citizen has illegally procured such 
benefit, or procured such benefit by concealment of a ma-
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terial fact or by willful misrepresentation, including being 
subject to a final deportation order, whether under the 
current identity or under another identity of that indi-
vidual, such officer or employee shall prepare an affidavit 
described in subsection (a) and submit such affidavit to 
the appropriate United States attorney described in that 
subsection. Upon receipt of such an affidavit, such United 
States attorney shall institute the proceedings described 
in subsection (a).’’. 
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