A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to repeal the 10-year citizenship requirement for eligibility for veterans' health care benefits for lawful permanent residents of the United States who were members of the Armed Forces of Czechoslovakia or Poland during World War I or World War II and to extend such benefits to lawful permanent residents of the United States who were members of the Armed Forces of Russia, the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republic, Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania during either such war.

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Provides that certain persons who served in allied forces during World War I or World War II must be permanent United States residents in order to receive specified veterans' health and medical benefits (presently such persons must have been U.S. citizens for at least ten years). Enlarges the category of such allied forces to include the armed forces of Russia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Limits the requirement of providing a French or British certification of military service to those persons who served in the Polish or Czechoslovakian armed forces.

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  summary · EN · 27 June 1979

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