Ensuring Security for Military Spouses Act

Bill: 117-hr-7028
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Herrera Beutler, Jaime [R-WA-3]
Introduced: 2022-03-09
Policy area: Immigration
Latest action: action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-03-09
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Ensuring Security for Military Spouses Act</strong></p> <p>This bill waives for certain military spouses a residency requirement pertaining to naturalization, specifically the requirement that the applicant must have resided for at least three months in the state or service district where the naturalization application is filed. </p> <p>Under the bill, this residency requirement shall not apply to an applicant who is (1) a lawful permanent resident, and (2) the spouse of a member of the Armed Forces serving on active duty in the United States.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7028 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 9, 2022 Ms. Herrera Beutler (for herself and Mr. Thompson of California ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that the 3-month State residency requirement for applicants for naturalized citizenship do not apply with respect to spouses of members of the Armed Forces serving on active duty at a location in the United States, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ensuring Security for Military Spouses Act . 2. No State residency requirement for spouses of members of the Armed Forces serving on active duty at a location in the United States Section 319 of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1430 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (f) In the case of a person lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States who is the spouse of a member of the Armed Forces serving on active duty at a location in the United States, the requirement under subsection (a) of this section and under section 316(a) that a person have resided within the State or the Service district in the United States in which the applicant filed his application for at least three months shall not apply. .