Through the kindness of the Honorable GEORGE MILLER. of California. who chairs the Subcommittee on Water and Power. this bill will authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide water resource research. planning and management assistance in American Samoa. The Secretarys assistance will promote solutions which encourage smallscale. resourceconserving projects suited to the needs of my constituency. By means of two sections of this bill an alien might become a U.S. noncitizen national if he or she had one U.S. noncitizen national parent who met certain qualifications. Prior to the birth of his or her alien child. the noncitizen national parent must have been physically present in the United States. the District of Columbia. Puerto Rico. the Virgin Islands. Guam or American Samoa for no less than 7 years in any continuous period of 10 years. During that period the noncitizen national parent cannot have left the United States or American Samoa for a continuous period of more than 1 year. At least 5 years of the 10year period must have occurred after the noncitizen national parent attained the age of 14 years. H.R. 2478 contains a provision that a person who claims to be a noncitizen national under this bill must prove that he or she is such to the satisfaction of the Secretary of State. What the applicant must establish to the Secretarys satisfaction is that he or she had one noncitizen national parent who had been physically present prior to the applicants birth in the United States. the District of Columbia. Guam. Puerto Rico. the Virgin Islands or American Samoa for 10 years. 5 years after the parent attained the age of 14 years. A problem may arise for an applicant who was born prior to the 1930s. His or her noncitizen national parent could have been born as long ago as the 1870s or 1880s. It will be difficult for such an applicant to establish both that his or her noncitizen national parent was born in the islands now comprising American Samoa and that this parent lived for 10 years in American Samoa. The latter would require the applicant to furnish proof of residence in these islands as early as the first decade of this century. Regardless of what part of the world one is considering. anyone would have a hard time providing documentation that an ancestor had lived in a certain place 70 or 80 years ago for a continuous period of 10 years.
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