[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 677 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 677

 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1994, to provide the 
   descendants of the children of female United States citizens born 
   abroad before May 24, 1934, with the same rights to United States 
   citizenship at birth as the descendants of children born of male 
                            citizens abroad.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 1, 1997

 Ms. Moseley-Braun introduced the following bill; which was read twice 
             and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1994, to provide the 
   descendants of the children of female United States citizens born 
   abroad before May 24, 1934, with the same rights to United States 
   citizenship at birth as the descendants of children born of male 
                            citizens abroad.

    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 ``Equity in Transmission of 
Citizenship Act of 1997''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) since the children born abroad to United States citizen 
        mothers before May 24, 1934, only became entitled to claim 
        United States citizenship, acquired at birth, as of October 25, 
        1994, with the enactment of Public Law 103-416, they were not 
        legally admissible into the United States as citizens prior to 
        that date; and
            (2) therefore, they could not meet the residency 
        requirements to transmit United States citizenship onto their 
        children as the children of male United States citizens could.

SEC. 3. EQUAL TREATMENT OF CHILDREN BORN ABROAD OF FEMALE UNITED STATES 
              CITIZENS IN CONFERRING CITIZENSHIP TO CHILDREN BORN 
              ABROAD.

    (a) In General.--Section 101 of Public Law 103-416 is amended by 
amending subsection (d) to read as follows:
    ``(d) Waiver of Transmission Requirements.--The parental physical 
presence requirement contained in section 301(g) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act shall not apply to any person born before the date of 
enactment of this Act who claims United States citizenship based on 
such person's descent from an individual described in section 301(h) of 
the Immigration and Nationality Act.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall be 
deemed to have become effective as of October 25, 1994.
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