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Introduced September 19, 2025 by Mark Takano · Last progress September 19, 2025
The bill expands protections, expedited pathways, and administrative supports for noncitizen service members, veterans, and their families—reducing wrongful removals and smoothing access to citizenship—while imposing new costs, data‑sharing/privacy risks, procedural delays, and certain public‑safety and eligibility trade‑offs.
Noncitizen service members, veterans, and their immediate family members will have faster and more certain paths to lawful permanent residence and naturalization (including on-duty naturalization and counting contingency-operation service), increasing access to citizenship and related benefits.
Noncitizen veterans and service members face stronger protections against removal—DHS must check centralized records and the Act creates a review process that can pause removals and prevent deportation of prima facie eligible applicants until determinations are made.
Improved interagency coordination, required training (ICE, USCIS, DoD/JAG, recruiters), and reporting will reduce errors and increase consistent treatment of service-related immigration cases.
Federal agencies and taxpayers will face substantial new administrative costs and staff burdens to build/operate data systems, provide training, implement programs, pause removals, and process adjustment/naturalization requests.
Broad data-sharing, centralized veteran/immigrant databases, and routine transfer of alien files to advisory committees increase risks to privacy and data security for service members, veterans, and their families.
Requiring system checks and pausing removals for reviews can slow immigration enforcement and case adjudications, creating delays for enforcement priorities and for other applicants waiting on adjudications.
Based on analysis of 9 sections of legislative text.
Creates identification, review, and relief pathways for noncitizen service members, veterans, and certain family members including studies, a review committee, naturalization and adjustment procedures, and DHS waivers.
Creates new protections, identification systems, review procedures, and immigration pathways for noncitizen service members, veterans, and certain military family members. It requires a joint study of noncitizen veterans removed from the U.S., directs DHS and DOD to build tools and training to identify veterans, forms a Military Family Immigration Advisory Committee to review removal cases, expands and speeds naturalization for service members, requires USCIS presence or trained staff at enlistment processing centers, allows adjustment or admission of some noncitizen veterans with final removal orders, and permits certain immediate relatives of U.S. citizen service members to adjust status.