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Corporal Fernando Ruiz Baltazar Posthumous Citizenship Act of 2025
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend honorary citizenship to otherwise qualified noncitizens who enlisted in the Philippines and died while serving on active duty with the United States Armed Forces during certain periods of hostilities, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to grant posthumous honorary citizenship to noncitizens who died while serving on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces. It specifically expands eligibility to include noncitizens who enlisted in the Philippines between September 1, 1939, and December 31, 1946, and died as a result of injuries or disease incurred during military service. The executive department under which a person served would determine whether the person met the eligibility requirements. The bill allows applications for posthumous citizenship to be made retroactively to the date the bill is enacted for those who enlisted in the Philippines during the specified period.
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- Dec 2, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
- Dec 2, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
December 2, 2025
Mr. Cisneros (for himself, Mr. Sessions, Ms. Chu, and Mr. Scott of Virginia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend honorary citizenship to otherwise qualified noncitizens who enlisted in the Philippines and died while serving on active duty with the United States Armed Forces during certain periods of hostilities, 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 “Corporal Fernando Ruiz Baltazar Posthumous Citizenship Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. GRANTING OF POSTHUMOUS CITIZENSHIP TO OTHERWISE QUALIFIED NONCITIZENS WHO ENLISTED IN THE PHILIPPINES.
(a) In General.—Section 329A(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1440-1(b)) is amended to read as follows:
“(b) Noncitizens Eligible for Posthumous Citizenship.—
“(1) In general.—A person referred to in subsection (a) is a person who, while an alien or a noncitizen national of the United States—
“(A) served honorably in an active-duty status in the military, air, or naval forces of the United States during any period described in the first sentence of section 329(a);
“(B) died as a result of injury or disease incurred in or aggravated by that service; and
“(C) either—
“(i) satisfied the requirements of clause
(1) or (2) of the first sentence of section 329(a); or
“(ii) enlisted, reenlisted, extended enlistment, or was inducted in the Philippines and died during the period beginning September 1, 1939, and ending December 31, 1946.
“(2) Determination of satisfaction of requirements.—The executive department under which a person described in paragraph (1) served shall determine whether the person satisfied the requirements of subparagraphs (A), (B), and
(C)(ii) of paragraph (1).
“(3) Posthumous benefits.—In the case of a person to which paragraph (1)(C)(ii) applies—
“(A) section 319(d) shall not apply; and
“(B) section 1703 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 (Public Law 108- 136; 117 Stat. 1693; 8 U.S.C. 1151 note) shall not apply.”.
(b) Conforming Amendments.—Section 329A(c)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1440-1(c)(2)) is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (A)(i), by inserting “(or, in the case of an individual to which clause (ii) of subsection (b)(1)(C) applies, the date of the enactment of such clause (ii))” after “the date of enactment of this section”;
(2) by striking subparagraph (B) and inserting the following new subparagraph:
“(B) the request is accompanied by a duly authenticated certificate from the executive department under which the person served which states that the person satisfied the requirements of—
“(i) subparagraphs (A) and (B) of subsection (b)(1); and
“(ii) if applicable, subparagraph (C)(ii) of subsection (b)(1); and”; and
(3) in subparagraph (C), by striking “of subsection
(b)(3)” and inserting “of subsection (b)(1)(C)(i)”. <all>
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