Democratic bill seeks green card status for soldiers’ kin

This bill would give our soldiers on active duty one less thing to worry about while they are away. - - Donna Poisl

by Erik Shilling / The Record (Hackensack N.J.)

HACKENSACK, N.J. - Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and seven other Democratic senators reintroduced legislation last week that would grant permanent-resident status to the immigrant relatives of active-duty military personnel.

The Military Families Act would make immigrant parents, spouses and children of anyone who has served in the armed forces since 2001 permanent residents. The bill, which was reintroduced Thursday, also would cover the immigrant relatives of those who have died while serving in the military.

"We owe the men and women who risk their lives in service of our nation so much, and that should include the right to be united with their closest family members in our country on a permanent basis," Menendez said of the bill.
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