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119-hr-3832119th Congress

Kerrie Orozco First Responders Family Support Act

Sponsored By: Representative Bacon, Don [R-NE-2]

Introduced

Summary

Creates a special path to U.S. citizenship for immediate relatives of U.S. citizens who die from injuries or diseases tied to public safety work. It lets qualifying spouses, children, and parents naturalize without the usual U.S. residence or physical presence requirements.

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  • Surviving spouses who were living in marital union with the citizen at the time of death can naturalize without any prior U.S. residence or specified physical presence, after meeting other naturalization rules.
  • Children of the deceased U.S. citizen may naturalize under the same exception to residence and physical presence, subject to the law's other requirements.
  • Parents of the deceased U.S. citizen are eligible for the same naturalization pathway, again while complying with other statutory eligibility rules.
  • Eligibility requires that the citizen’s death resulted from an injury or disease incurred in or aggravated by employment as a “public safety officer” as defined in federal law.

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Citizenship path for public safety families

If enacted, you could apply for U.S. citizenship if you are the surviving spouse, child, or parent of a U.S. citizen who died from an injury or disease tied to work as a public safety officer. You would not need to meet the usual residence or physical presence rules. If you are a spouse, you must have been living in marital union at the time of death. You would still need to meet the other naturalization rules in the Immigration and Nationality Act. The term public safety officer would use the federal definition in 34 U.S.C. 10284.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Bacon, Don [R-NE-2]

NE • R

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Min, Dave [D-CA-47]

    CA • D

    Sponsored 6/9/2025

Roll Call Votes

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