Unless we turn this situatiou around. our nation will never fulfill its potential as a formidable exporting power. To that end. I rise today to introduce three bills designed to make it easier to be an "American abroad." The first bill is entitled "The Overseas American Childrens Human Rights Act of 1991." This legislation would change current immigration and naturalization law to ensure that Americans living overseas have the same rights to transmit citizenship to their children that are enjoyed by each and every one of us living here on American soil. Under current law. if an American citizen marries a foreign national and lives outside the United States. that citizen must have physically resided in the United States for five years. at least two of which were after the age of 14. for his or her child to be an Ameriuan citizen at birth. However. children born out of wedlock to an American abroad become citizens at birth if the U.S. parent has resided in the United States for only one year in the aggregate.
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