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Version 00 · Introduced in House · May 6, 2003
Armed Forces Naturalization Act of 2003 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act respecting naturalization through service in the armed forces to: (1) reduce the required service from three years to one year; and (2) prohibit the imposition of a naturalization fee.Provides for overseas naturalization proceedings for members of the armed forces.Amends the Act to retain, with specified filing deadlines, immediate relative status for the alien spouse, child, or parent of a person granted posthumous U.S. citizenship through death from injury or disease incurred while serving honorably on active military service during a period of hostilities. Permits self-petitions for immigrant status. Waives public charge grounds of inadmissibility. Prohibits the imposition of related fees.Treats the alien spouse, child, or parent of a U.S. citizen who died from injury or disease incurred while serving honorably on active military service during a period of hostilities as a valid petitioner for immediate family status. Permits surviving child or parent self-petitions for immigrant status. Waives public charge grounds of inadmissibility.Replaces specified references to the "Attorney General" with the "Secretary of Homeland Security."Makes the provisions of this Act, except fee-related provisions, effective as if enacted on September 11, 2001.
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Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5] · R–WI
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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 142.
Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Hatch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Hatch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Received in the Senate.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 414 - 5 (Roll no. 239). (text: CR H4899-4901)
House roll call 239 · Individual votesPassed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 414 - 5 (Roll no. 239).(text: CR H4899-4901)
House roll call 239 · Individual votesConsidered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4921)
At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1954.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4899-4910)
Mr. Sensenbrenner moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 57.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 108-111.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 108-111.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims Discharged.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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