Bill > HR7946

This bill, the Veteran Service Recognition Act of 2022, aims to provide benefits and protections for noncitizen members of the U.S. Armed Forces. The key provisions include: 1) Requiring a study and report on noncitizen veterans who were removed from the U.S. between 1990 and the present, including details on their service and removal. 2) Establishing an information system and protocol within the Department of Homeland Security to identify noncitizen veterans and consider their veteran status in removal proceedings. 3) Creating a Military Family Immigration Advisory Committee to review cases of noncitizen members of the Armed Forces, veterans, and their family members, and provide recommendations to the Secretary of Homeland Security on whether discretion should be exercised to terminate removal proceedings. 4) Expanding the program for noncitizens to obtain U.S. citizenship through military service, including requiring faster processing of citizenship applications and increased training for military recruiters and Judge Advocate General officers. 5) Allowing for the return and adjustment of status for certain noncitizen veterans who were previously removed from the U.S., and providing waivers for inadmissibility grounds in certain cases. 6) Exempting certain immediate family members of U.S. citizen service members and veterans from certain inadmissibility grounds for purposes of adjusting their immigration status.

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