Title: Second Chance for Service Act
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Second Chance for Service Act
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that an applicant for citizenship who served honorably in the Armed Forces is not barred from becoming a U.S. citizen on the grounds of not being a person of good moral character based upon specified behaviors or having committed certain crimes, excluding crimes relating to murder, rape, sexual abuse of a minor, child pornography, prostitution, trafficking in persons, and national security.
In determining whether an applicant is of good moral character, the applicant's honorable service shall be weighed against any finding of having committed such behaviors or crimes.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3352 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3352

    To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that an 
 applicant for citizenship who served honorably in the Armed Forces of 
 the United States is not automatically barred from becoming a citizen 
of the United States for having committed certain crimes, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 20, 2017

    Mr. Takano (for himself, Mr. Vargas, and Ms. Castor of Florida) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that an 
 applicant for citizenship who served honorably in the Armed Forces of 
 the United States is not automatically barred from becoming a citizen 
of the United States for having committed certain crimes, 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 ``Second Chance for Service Act''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHING GOOD MORAL CHARACTER OF APPLICANTS FOR CITIZENSHIP 
              WHO SERVED HONORABLY IN THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED 
              STATES.

    Section 328(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act is amended by 
adding at the end the following: ``Notwithstanding section 101(f), a 
finding that an applicant under this section is described in any of 
paragraphs (1) through (9) of section 101(f) (except in the case of an 
applicant who is described in any such paragraph because of having been 
convicted of an aggravated felony described in subparagraph (A), (I), 
(K), or (L) of section 101(a)(43)) shall not preclude a finding that 
the applicant is of good moral character. In determining whether the 
applicant is of good moral character, the applicant's service under 
honorable conditions shall be weighed against any finding that the 
applicant is described any such paragraph.''.
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