Speaker. I am today introducing a bill which will correct a longstanding inequity in this countrys nationality laws. Under the present provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act. certain children of parents Who die while serving honorably in the Armed Forces of the United States are denied citizenship merely because they or their parents have not resided for a sufficiently long period in the United States itself. Thus. these children may be denied the benefits and privileges of citizenship of the country which their parent was honorably serving on military duty at the time of his death. The inequity of this situation is immediately apparent in cases where the childs parent is killed in combat.
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