Title: Kerrie Orozco First Responders Family Support Act
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Kerrie Orozco First Responders Family Support Act
This bill establishes that a surviving spouse, child, or parent of a U.S. citizen public safety officer may be naturalized at the time of the officer's death if the death was caused by an injury incurred or aggravated by the officer's employment. The individual may be naturalized upon meeting the relevant immigration law requirements, except that no prior residence or specified U.S. physical presence shall be required. A surviving spouse seeking naturalization must have been living in marital union with the officer at the time of death.
Public safety officers include law enforcement officers, firefighters, or chaplains, and certain Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employees engaged in hazardous duties.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5636 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5636

      To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for 
 naturalization processes for the immediate relatives of public safety 
    officers who die as a result of their employment, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 20, 2021

Mr. Bacon (for himself, Mrs. Demings, Mr. Fortenberry, Mr. Panetta, and 
Mr. Carbajal) 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 for 
 naturalization processes for the immediate relatives of public safety 
    officers who die as a result of their employment, 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 ``Kerrie Orozco First Responders 
Family Support Act''.

SEC. 2. NATURALIZATION FOR IMMEDIATE RELATIVES OF PUBLIC SAFETY 
              OFFICERS.

    Section 319 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1430) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) Immediate Relatives of Public Safety Officers.--
            ``(1) In general.--Any person who is the surviving spouse, 
        child, or parent of a United States citizen, whose citizen 
        spouse, parent, or child dies as a result of injury or disease 
        incurred in or aggravated by employment as a public safety 
        officer, and who, in the case of a surviving spouse, was living 
        in marital union with the citizen spouse at the time of his 
        death, may be naturalized upon compliance with all the 
        requirements of this title, except that no prior residence or 
        specified physical presence within the United States shall be 
        required.
            ``(2) Definition.--For purposes of this subsection, the 
        term `public safety officer' has the meaning given such term in 
        section 1204 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 
        of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10284).''.
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