Notwithstanding promises made to these Philippine soldiers in 1946. Congress enacted The Rescission Act which stripped members of the Philippine Commonwealth army of being duly recognized as veterans of the United States Armed Forces. It was not until 1990 that Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1990 permitting Philippine veterans of World War I to apply for naturalization in recognition of their wartime service. Today. CBO estimates that at least 28.000 veterans of the Commonwealth Army and Philippine Scouts are U.S. citizens. According to information from the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). about 15.000 who live in the United States became citizens between 1991 and 1995 under the authority of the Immigration Act of 1990. H. Res. 836.
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