Kerrie Orozco First Responders Family Support Act

Summary

Allows surviving immediate relatives (spouse, child, or parent) of a U.S. citizen who died as a result of injury or disease incurred in or aggravated by employment as a public safety officer to naturalize without any prior residence or physical presence requirement. If the applicant is a surviving spouse, they must have been living in marital union with the deceased citizen at the time of death.

• Permits naturalization without prior residence or physical presence for surviving immediate relatives of certain deceased U.S. citizens.
• Covers surviving spouse, surviving child, and surviving parent of a U.S. citizen who died from injury or disease incurred or aggravated by public safety officer employment.
• Requires surviving spouses to have been living in marital union with the deceased at the time of death.
• Defines public safety officer by reference to the federal statutory definition, linking eligibility to roles covered under that law.
• Does not create new funding or administrative programs; it changes eligibility criteria in the INA.
• Applies only to deaths caused by injury or disease tied to employment as a public safety officer—not to all deaths of public safety officers.
• Other naturalization requirements remain in force; the change only removes prior residence/physical presence requirements for qualifying applicants.
• Likely to be used by a small, specific group of survivors rather than a broad population.