[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 47 (Monday, November 28, 1994)]
[Pages 2430-2431]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 12939--Expedited Naturalization of Aliens and Noncitizen 
Nationals Who Served in an Active-Duty Status During the Persian Gulf 
Conflict

November 22, 1994

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including section 1440 of 
title 8, United States Code, and in order to provide expedited 
naturalization for aliens and noncitizen nationals who served in an 
active-duty status in the Armed Forces of the United States during the 
period of the Persian Gulf Conflict, it is hereby ordered as follows:
    For the purpose of determining qualification for the exception from 
the usual requirements for naturalization, the period of Persian Gulf 
Conflict military operations in which the Armed Forces of the United 
States were engaged in armed conflict with a hostile force commenced on 
August 2, 1990, and

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terminated on April 11, 1991. Those persons serving honorably in active-
duty status in the Armed Forces of the United States during this period 
are eligible for naturalization in accordance with the statutory 
exception to the naturalization requirements, as provided in section 
1440(b) of title 8, United States Code.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
November 22, 1994.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:42 a.m., November 28, 
1994]

Note: This Executive order will be published in the Federal Register on 
November 29.