Secure Citizenship Act of 2016

Secure Citizenship Act of 2016

This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require an alien to list on his or her naturalization application such person's current legal name and date of birth and all other names used since birth.

The bill requires the Department of Homeland Security, by May 31, 2017, to: (1) complete the digitization of fingerprints of aliens who were fugitives, convicted criminals, or subject to deportation orders or who had other derogatory information dating back to 1990 under the Historical Fingerprint Enrollment program; and (2) store such digitized fingerprints along with related biographical data in its Automated Biometric Identification system.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3480 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3480

To make an alien who applies for naturalization using a false identity 
    ineligible for citizenship and to require the completion of the 
   Historical Fingerprint Enrollment Program and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 17, 2016

   Mr. Sasse introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To make an alien who applies for naturalization using a false identity 
    ineligible for citizenship and to require the completion of the 
   Historical Fingerprint Enrollment Program 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 ``Secure Citizenship Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON CITIZENSHIP FOR ALIENS APPLYING USING A FALSE 
              NAME.

    Section 316(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1427(a)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and'' before ``(3)''; and
            (2) by striking the period at the end and inserting ``, and 
        (4) provides on the person's application for naturalization the 
        person's current legal name and date of birth and all other 
        names used since birth.''.

SEC. 3. COMPLETION OF THE HISTORICAL FINGERPRINT ENROLLMENT PROGRAM.

    Not later than May 31, 2017, the Secretary of Homeland Security 
shall--
            (1) complete the digitization of fingerprints of aliens who 
        were fugitives, convicted criminals, subject to deportation 
        orders, or had other derogatory information dating back to 1990 
        under the project known as the Historical Fingerprint 
        Enrollment Program; and
            (2) store such digitized fingerprints along with relating 
        biographical data in the Automated Biometric Identification 
        System (IDENT) maintained by the Department of Homeland 
        Security.
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