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Ensuring Security for Military Spouses Act

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that the 3- month State residency requirement for applicants for naturalized citizenship do not apply with respect to spouses of members of the Armed Forces serving on active duty at a location in the United States, and for other purposes.

Introduced May 13, 2025

Latest action (May 13, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Policy area
Issues
Defense

Summary

  • Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to remove the 3-month state residency requirement for naturalization applicants who are spouses of active-duty Armed Forces members.
  • Allows military spouses who are lawfully admitted permanent residents to apply for naturalized citizenship regardless of how long they have resided in their current state or service district.
  • Applies to spouses of military members serving on active duty at locations within the United States.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Marilyn Strickland’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • Employer not reported $59,900
  • RICHMARK LABEL $10,100
  • INTUITIVEX $9,900
  • AMAZON $7,263
  • GOLDMAN SACHS $7,100

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Marilyn Strickland → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)

  1. May 13, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
  2. May 13, 2025 Introduced in House

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Text versions (1)

  • Introduced in House · May 13, 2025

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Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

May 13, 2025

Ms. Strickland (for herself and Ms. Salazar) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that the 3- month State residency requirement for applicants for naturalized citizenship do not apply with respect to spouses of members of the Armed Forces serving on active duty at a location in the United States, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Ensuring Security for Military Spouses Act”.

SEC. 2. NO STATE RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT FOR SPOUSES OF MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES SERVING ON ACTIVE DUTY AT A LOCATION IN THE UNITED STATES.

Section 319 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1430) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(f) In the case of a person lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States who is the spouse of a member of the Armed Forces serving on active duty at a location in the United States, the requirement under subsection (a) of this section and under section 316(a) that a person have resided within the State or the Service district in the United States in which the applicant filed his application for at least three months shall not apply.”. <all>

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