Mr. Speaker. this legislation is designed to modify certain provisions of title 3 of the Immigration and Nationality Act which affect the retention of U.S. citizenship by naturalized citizens who reside outside the United States. Under existing law. automatic loss of U.S. citizenship occurs in the case of a naturalized citizen who established residence abroad. first. for 3 years in a country where he was born or of which he was formerly a national. or second. for 5 years in any other country. There are several exemptions from this general rule. such as. residence abroad in the employ of the U.S. Government. or an American business organization. or a scientific institution. and so forth. One of the exemptions applies to the spouse or child accompanying a U.S. citizen who has his residence abroad for reasons specified in the law. Section 1 of H.R. 3088 will add to the exempted the parent of a U.S. citizen who resides abroad with such citizen. An illustrative case would be that of a woman born in Ireland. now about 60 years of age. a naturalized citizen of the United States. who is residing in Ireland with her daughter. a nativeborn U.S. citizen employed by the Department of State and at the present time assigned to the U.S. Embassy at Dublin. Ireland.
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