[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 27 (Monday, July 8, 2002)]
[Pages 1136-1137]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13269--Expedited Naturalization of Aliens and Noncitizen 
Nationals Serving in an Active-Duty Status During the War on Terrorism

July 3, 2002

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including section 329 of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1440) (the ``Act''), and 
solely in order to provide expedited naturalization for aliens and 
noncitizen nationals serving in an active-duty status in the Armed 
Forces of the United States during the period of the war against 
terrorists of global reach, it is hereby ordered as follows:
    For the purpose of determining qualification for the exception from 
the usual requirements for naturalization, I designate as a period in 
which the Armed Forces of the United States were engaged in armed 
conflict with a hostile foreign force the period beginning on September 
11, 2001. Such period will be deemed to terminate on a date designated 
by future Executive Order. Those persons serving honorably in active-
duty status in the Armed Forces of the United States, during the period 
beginning on September 11, 2001, and terminating on the date to be so 
designated, are eligible for naturalization in accordance with the 
statutory exception to the naturalization requirements, as provided in 
section 329 of the Act. Nothing contained in this order is intended to 
affect, nor does it affect, any other power, right, or obligation of the 
United States, its agencies, officers, employees, or any other person 
under Federal law or the law of nations.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 July 3, 2002.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:21 a.m., July 5, 
2002]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on July 
8.

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