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Posthumous Citizenship for Binghamton Victims Act

Introduced: April 28, 2009 Introduced by: Schumer, Charles E. Democratic · New York See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Apr 28, 2009
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Posthumous Citizenship for Binghamton Victims Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide for the granting of citizenship as of April 2, 2009, to an individual otherwise eligible for naturalization who: (1) was, as of April 2, 2009, an alien or U.S. national; (2) died as a result of an injury incurred during the April 3, 2009, shooting at the American Civic Association Community Center in Binghamton, New York; and (3) was not culpable for an act that was a cause of an injury during such shooting.

Prohibits the granting of derivative immigration benefits to surviving relatives of an individual granted posthumous citizenship under this Act.

What's happening now April 28, 2009

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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Gillibrand, Kirsten E.
New York · Apr 28, 2009
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 905: Posthumous Citizenship for Binghamton Victims Act. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-905/
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"S. 905: Posthumous Citizenship for Binghamton Victims Act." 111th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-905/.
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S. 905, 111th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-905/.
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