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Public Law 90–369
To provide for the expeditious naturalisation of the surviving spouse of a United States citizen who dies while serving in an active duty status in the Armed Forces of the United States.
Approved June 29, 1968
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the expeditious naturalisation of the surviving spouse of a United States citizen who dies while serving in an active duty status in the Armed Forces of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 319 of
Immigration and Nationality Act, amendment.
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1430; 66 Stat. 244) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following additional subsection:
“(d) Any person who is the surviving spouse of a United States
Surviving spouse of Armed Forces member.
citizen, whose citizen spouse dies during a period of honorable service in an active duty status in the Armed Forces of the United States and who was living in marital union with the citizen spouse at the time of his death, may be naturalized upon compliance with all the requirements of this title except that no prior residence or specified physical presence within the United States, or within the jurisdiction of the naturalization court shall be required.”
Approved June 29, 1968.