Ensuring Security for Military Spouses Act
This bill waives for certain military spouses a residency requirement pertaining to naturalization, specifically the requirement that the applicant must have resided for at least three months in the state or service district where the naturalization application is filed.
Under the bill, this residency requirement shall not apply to an applicant who is (1) a lawful permanent resident, and (2) the spouse of a member of the Armed Forces serving on active duty in the United States.
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that the 3-
   month State residency requirement for applicants for naturalized 
  citizenship do not apply with respect to spouses of members of the 
Armed Forces serving on active duty at a location in the United States, 
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Ensuring Security for Military 
Spouses Act''.

SEC. 2. NO STATE RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT FOR SPOUSES OF MEMBERS OF THE 
              ARMED FORCES SERVING ON ACTIVE DUTY AT A LOCATION IN THE 
              UNITED STATES.

    Section 319 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1430) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) In the case of a person lawfully admitted for permanent 
residence in the United States who is the spouse of a member of the 
Armed Forces serving on active duty at a location in the United States, 
the requirement under subsection (a) of this section and under section 
316(a) that a person have resided within the State or the Service 
district in the United States in which the applicant filed his 
application for at least three months shall not apply.''.
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Ensuring Security for Military Spouses Act
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that the 3-month State residency requirement for applicants for naturalized citizenship do not apply with respect to spouses of members of the Armed Forces serving on active duty at a location in the United States, and for other purposes.
Ensuring Security for Military Spouses Act
Rep. Herrera Beutler, Jaime