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This bill, the Veteran Deportation Prevention and Reform Act, aims to provide benefits and protections for noncitizen members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their immediate family members. Key provisions include: - Requiring federal agencies to identify members of the Armed Forces, veterans, and their covered family members in removal proceedings and transfer their cases to an advisory committee for review before any removal order can be executed. - Establishing the Military Family Immigration Advisory Committee to make recommendations to the Secretary of Homeland Security and Attorney General on whether to grant immigration relief or proceed with removal for these individuals. - Mandating the creation of a system to track information on potentially removable noncitizen veterans and their removal proceedings. - Setting up a program to facilitate the naturalization of noncitizen service members and ensure their applications are adjudicated before discharge. - Allowing eligible deported veterans and their family members to return to the U.S. and adjust their immigration status. - Amending the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish that service members who served honorably should be considered to have good moral character for citizenship purposes. The overall goal is to prevent the deportation of noncitizen members of the U.S. military and veterans, and provide them and their families with immigration relief and benefits commensurate with their service and sacrifice.

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