Speech #880136359

I believe that. rather than introduce a private bill again this year. it would be better to amend the act so that others will not be affected similarly by this unusual set of circumstances. Therefore. the amendment I introduce today would add another proviso to the current law to state that the physical presence requirement shall not apply to any citizen parent who. at the time of the birth of his child. is required to serve and is serving outside the country in the Armed Forces of the United States. or in the employment of any other department or agency of the United States. In other words. in the case I have related of the Air Force sergeant who was a naturalized citizen married to an alien and who had not lived in the United States 10 years prior to the birth of his son. it would not matter whether the sergeant were stationed in the United States or overseas. and. thus. whether the son were born here or abroad. Such a child would still be declared a citizen at birth. In all fairness.