[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1206 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1206

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to clarify that noncitizen 
   nationals of the United States who are children of United States 
  citizens are eligible for United States citizenship, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 13, 2019

Mrs. Radewagen 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 clarify that noncitizen 
   nationals of the United States who are children of United States 
  citizens are eligible for United States citizenship, 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. CONDITIONS OF ACQUIRING CITIZENSHIP FOR NONCITIZEN NATIONALS 
              OF THE UNITED STATES WHO ARE CHILDREN OF UNITED STATES 
              CITIZENS.

    Section 320(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1431) is amended--
            (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by inserting 
        after ``outside of the United States'' the following: ``, or 
        born in an outlying possession of the United States,''; and
            (2) in paragraph (3), by inserting before the period at the 
        end the following: ``, except that the requirement under this 
        paragraph to be admitted to the United States as a lawful 
        permanent resident shall not apply in the case of a child born 
        in an outlying possession of the United States''.
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