Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
The Veteran Service Recognition Act of 2025 creates a comprehensive framework to protect noncitizen service members and veterans from deportation and to streamline their path to citizenship. The bill requires the federal government to study noncitizen veterans removed since 1990, establishes a Department of Homeland Security identification system to flag noncitizen veterans before removal proceedings, and creates an advisory committee to review removal cases and recommend alternatives like deferred action. It extends the naturalization waiting period from six months to one year and requires the Department of Defense to station immigration officials at military recruitment centers to inform recruits about citizenship opportunities through service. The bill also grants the Secretary of Homeland Security authority to restore permanent residency to deported veterans, waive most immigration grounds of inadmissibility for veteran deportees in the public interest, and allows spouses and children of U.S. citizen service members and veterans with at least two years of honorable service to adjust their immigration status without meeting certain standard admissibility requirements.
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