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This is a list of United States politicians who were born outside the present-day United States, its territories (the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa), and its outlying possessions. This list does not include politicians from the Philippines (such as Resident Commissioners of the Philippines), which was held under various forms of government as an American territory from 1898 to 1946 before becoming a sovereign country.

United States citizenship is required to serve in Congress, as President or Vice President, and in most state offices. The President and the Vice President must additionally be a ‘natural-born citizen’. Foreign-born politicians may gain U.S. citizenship by means of birth (if one or both of their parents were citizens who met the requirements to transmit citizenship at birth), derivation (if they acquired citizenship from their parents after birth but before the age of 18), or naturalization (if they acquired citizenship by fulfilling the requirements of the naturalization process as established in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952).

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Foreign Born Members of Congress

Senators

Main article: List of United States senators born outside the United States

Senator	Country/place of birth	Citizenship by	Party	Serving since	Position(s) held
Michael Bennet	India	Birth	Democratic	2009	U.S. Senator from Colorado
Ted Cruz	Canada	Birth	Republican	2013	U.S. Senator from Texas
Tammy Duckworth	Thailand	Birth	Democratic	2017	U.S. Senator from Illinois
Mazie Hirono	Japan	Naturalization	Democratic	2013	U.S. Senator from Hawaii
Chris Van Hollen	Pakistan	Birth	Democratic	2017	U.S. Senator from Maryland
Bernie Moreno	Colombia	Naturalization	Republican	2025	U.S. Senator from Ohio

Representative	Country/place of birth	Citizenship by	Party	Serving since	Position held
Becca Balint	West Germany	Birth	Democratic	2023	U.S. Representative from Vermont
Don Beyer	Trieste	Birth	Democratic	2015	U.S. Representative from Virginia
Salud Carbajal	Mexico	Naturalization	Democratic	2017	U.S. Representative from California
Sean Casten	Ireland	Birth	Democratic	2019	U.S. Representative from Illinois
Juan Ciscomani	Mexico	Naturalization	Republican	2023	U.S. Representative from Arizona
Andrew Clyde	Canada	Birth	Republican	2021	U.S. Representative from Georgia
Dan Crenshaw	Scotland	Birth	Republican	2019	U.S. Representative from Texas
Sharice Davids	West Germany	Birth	Democratic	2019	U.S. Representative from Kansas
Diana DeGette	Japan	Birth	Democratic	1997	U.S. Representative from Colorado
Adriano Espaillat	Dominican Republic	Naturalization	Democratic	2017	U.S. Representative from New York
Jesús “Chuy” García	Mexico	Naturalization	Democratic	2019	U.S. Representative from Illinois
Robert Garcia	Peru	Naturalization	Democratic	2023	U.S. Representative from California
Carlos A. Giménez	Cuba	Naturalization	Republican	2021	U.S. Representative from Florida
Jim Himes	Peru	Birth	Democratic	2009	U.S. Representative from Connecticut
Pramila Jayapal	India	Naturalization	Democratic	2017	U.S. Representative from Washington
Young Kim	South Korea	Naturalization	Republican	2021	U.S. Representative from California
Raja Krishnamoorthi	India	Naturalization	Democratic	2017	U.S. Representative from Illinois
Ted Lieu	Taiwan	Naturalization	Democratic	2015	U.S. Representative from California
Ilhan Omar	Somalia	Naturalization	Democratic	2019	U.S. Representative from Minnesota
David Rouzer	West Germany	Birth	Republican	2015	U.S. Representative from North Carolina
Raul Ruiz	Mexico	Derivation	Democratic	2013	U.S. Representative from California
Victoria Spartz	Ukrainian SSR	Naturalization	Republican	2021	U.S. Representative from Indiana
Marilyn Strickland	South Korea	Birth	Democratic	2021	U.S. Representative from Washington
Shri Thanedar	India	Naturalization	Democratic	2023	U.S. Representative from Michigan
Norma J. Torres	Guatemala	Naturalization	Democratic	2015	U.S. Representative from California
Eugene Vindman	Ukrainian SSR	Naturalization	Democratic	2025	U.S. Representative from Virginia

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