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The bill expands and expedites immigration, naturalization, and deportation protections for qualifying service members, veterans, and their families—reducing separation and increasing access to citizenship—while imposing administrative burdens, potential visa-queue impacts for other family applicants, tighter service-duration eligibility for some service members, and concerns about enforcement flexibility and verification costs.
Spouses, minor children, parents, and surviving family members of eligible service members can obtain lawful permanent residence more easily (including by adjusting status in the U.S. without leaving) and surviving relatives retain a two-year filing window after service-connected death, reducing family separation and disruption.
Noncitizen service members who supported contingency operations can naturalize immediately under the bill's contingency-operation pathway, speeding citizenship and earlier access to voting, federal jobs, and family immigration benefits.
Service members and veterans who served honorably gain protections from certain deportation processes (including limits on notices to appear), lowering the risk of removal and reducing family hardship.
Implementing the new eligibility rules, reclassifications, and additional consideration requirements will increase administrative workload for USCIS, DHS, and the State Department and create implementation costs with no new funding, risking processing delays across immigration services.
Placing more military family members explicitly into limited family-preference visa categories could increase demand for those visa slots and lengthen waits for other family-based applicants.
Raising the continuous active-duty service requirement from six months to one year delays naturalization eligibility for many noncitizen service members and may prolong uncertainty and reduce access to citizen-only benefits for those who separate before one year.
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Eases naturalization and provides in‑U.S. adjustment-of-status and removal protections for honorably serving service members and certain immediate family members, and raises a separate continuous-service naturalization threshold to one year.
Introduced November 18, 2025 by Michael Thompson · Last progress November 18, 2025
Allows people who served honorably in U.S. Armed Forces during contingency operations to get U.S. citizenship more easily, raises a separate continuous-service naturalization threshold from six months to one year, and gives certain immediate family members of active-duty or honorably separated service members a path to adjust to lawful permanent resident status while in the United States. It also limits the issuance of removal proceedings against honorably serving or separated service members and bars certain expedited removals for them. The bill recognizes military spouses, children, sons, and daughters as family-preference immigrants for some visa classifications, sets eligibility rules and fee authority for family adjustment applications, and creates a two-year eligibility window for family adjustment after a service member’s death from service-related causes. It does not appropriate funds but will change how DHS and immigration courts handle these service-related cases.