Mr. President. I would like to speak to an amendment designed to clarify existing immigration law and ease the burden on families sent abroad in service to the United States. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act. there is normally a 3year residence requirement for spouses of U.S. citizens to be naturalized. Section 319(B)(3) waives that requirement for applicants whose citizen spouses are ordered abroad by our Government to keep families intact while certain members do their duty to our country. wherever in the world that may require them to go. The same law rightly places value on cohabitation between spouses in requiring that applicants
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