Fallen First-Responders’ Family Naturalization Fee-Relief Act of 2021
Bill: H.R.4997 | Sponsor: Rep. Gimenez, Carlos A. (R-FL)
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Fallen First-Responders' Family Naturalization Fee-Relief Act of 2021
This bill waives certain immigration application or petition fees for an applicant who is (1) an injured firefighter or law enforcement officer, or (2) an immediate relative of an injured or deceased firefighter or law enforcement officer.
Specifically, such fees must be waived if the firefighter or law enforcement officer died or was permanently and totally disabled from an injury sustained in the line of duty.

To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to exempt immediate 
   relatives of deceased or injured firefighters and law enforcement 
 officers, and injured firefighters and law enforcement officers, from 
                 certain fees, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fallen First-Responders' Family 
Naturalization Fee-Relief Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTION OF FEES FOR IMMEDIATE RELATIVES OF DECEASED OR 
              INJURED FIREFIGHTERS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall include 
on a certain application or petition an opportunity for--
            (1) an immediate relative of a deceased or injured 
        firefighter or law enforcement officer to identify themselves 
        as such a relative; and
            (2) an injured firefighter or law enforcement officer to 
        identify themselves as such an individual.
    (b) Fee Exemption.--The Secretary shall exempt an individual 
described in subsection (a), who identifies as such an individual on a 
certain application or petition, from a fee with respect to a certain 
application or petition and any associated fee for biometrics.
    (c) Pending Applications and Petitions.--The Secretary of Homeland 
Security may waive fees for a certain application or petition and any 
associated fee for biometrics for an individual described in subsection 
(a), if such application or petition is submitted not more than 90 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Deceased or injured firefighter or law enforcement 
        officer.--
                    (A) In general.--The term ``deceased or injured 
                firefighter or law enforcement officer'' means a 
                firefighter or law enforcement officer who died or was 
                permanently and totally disabled as the direct and 
                proximate result of a personal injury sustained in the 
                line of duty.
                    (B) Determination.--The Secretary of Homeland 
                Security may make the determination of whether a 
                firefighter or law enforcement officer died or was 
                permanently and totally disabled as a direct and 
                proximate result of a personal injury sustained in the 
                line of duty in accordance with part L of title I of 
                the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 
                (34 U.S.C. 10281 et seq.).
            (2) Certain application or petition.--The term ``certain 
        application or petition'' means--
                    (A) an application using Form-400, Application for 
                Naturalization (or any successor form); or
                    (B) a petition using Form I-360, Petition for 
                Amerasian, Widow(er), or Special Immigrant (or any 
                successor form).
            (3) Immediate relative.--The term ``immediate relative'' 
        has the meaning given such term in section 201(b) of the 
        Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1151(b)).
            (4) Firefighter; law enforcement officer.--The terms 
        ``firefighter'' and ``law enforcement officer'' have the 
        meanings given such terms in section 1204 of the Omnibus Crime 
        Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10284).
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