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        <text>Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.</text>
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        <fullName>Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to waive certain U.S. naturalization requirements for a person who is born in American Samoa and resides continuously within American Samoa from birth to the time of admission to citizenship. (States that absence from American Samoa for a continuous period of more than 180 days shall break the residence continuity unless a person establishes that he or she did not abandon residence in American Samoa during such period.)</p>]]></text>
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    <title>To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to waive certain requirements for naturalization for American Samoan United States nationals to become United States citizens.</title>
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        <title>To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to waive certain requirements for naturalization for American Samoan United States nationals to become United States citizens.</title>
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      <text>Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.</text>
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