Summary

Adds people who hold a USCIS employment authorization document tied to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to the list of persons eligible to enlist in the U.S. armed forces, and updates federal military naturalization rules to use gender-neutral language and clarify service eligibility. It also makes clerical updates to statutory headings and the table of contents; it does not create new funding, deadlines, or agencies.

• Permits individuals with a USCIS DACA-based employment authorization document to enlist in the U.S. armed forces.
• Repeals an older military naturalization provision and revises the adjacent naturalization statute to modernize language.
• Converts gendered pronouns in the naturalization statute to gender-neutral phrasing.
• Clarifies active-duty, separation, and certain foreign-service references in the naturalization eligibility text.
• Updates statutory headings and the U.S. Code table of contents to match the revised text.
• Does not create new funding, new federal agencies, or set new deadlines.
• Directly affects immigration-related enlistment eligibility and the process for naturalization of service members.