Mr. Speaker. today I am introdicing legislation with my colleague Mr. BERMAN of California to make a technical correction to the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 [IIRIRA]. Allow me to explain the history behind this legislation. Section 102 of Public Law 103416. the Immigration and Nationality Technical Corrections Act [INTCA] granted Americans abroad the possibility of being able to expeditiously naturalize their children abroad who had not acquired U.S. citizenship at birth. This section allowed certificates of citizenship to be granted to a child of a U.S. citizen. either born or adopted abroad. provided that the child Is under 18 and that either an American parent or the U.S. parents parenti.e.. the American grandparent--has spent 5 years in the United States. Two of those 5 years must be after age 14.
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