Similar to the US Senate, members of the House of Representatives do not need to be natural-born citizens in command to obtain office.
In fact, the lone members of authorities who do are the chairman and vice president.
The House of Representatives, among the two chambers of Congress alongside the Senate, has 435 voting members. They portray legislative districts allocated among the states according to community and assist two-year conditions alongside no term limits.
To meet requirements as a US House representative, a individual must be:
- At smallest 25 years old
- A US inhabitant for at smallest seven years.
- Live in the province they desire to portray at the period of the election.
Many current House members were US citizens at commencement notwithstanding being delivered in another nation — for instance, since they were delivered to American parents operating in authorities positions abroad.
Here are the 26 energetic House representatives delivered exterior the US.
Becca Balint (D)
State: Vermont
District: At Large
Place of birth: Germany
Balint has served in Congress since 2023. She was delivered in Germany during her begetter was serving in the US armed forces, making her a US inhabitant at birth.
Donald S. Beyer Jr. (D)
State: Virginia
District: 08
Place of birth: Free Territory of Trieste (now Italy)
Beyer has served in Congress since 2015. He was delivered to a US Army officer, making him a inhabitant at birth.
Salud O. Carbajal (D)
State: California
District: 24
Place of birth: Mexico
Carbajal has served in Congress since 2017. He emigrated from Mexico at age 5 and became a naturalized inhabitant in 1990.
Sean Casten (D)
State: Illinois
District: 06
Place of birth: Ireland
Casten has served in Congress since 2019. He was delivered to American parents, making him a US inhabitant at birth.
Juan Ciscomani (R)
State: Arizona
District: 06
Place of birth: Mexico
Ciscomani has served in Congress since 2023. He moved to Arizona whenever he was 11 and became a naturalized inhabitant in 2006.
Andrew S. Clyde (R)
State: Georgia
District: 09
Place of birth: Canada
Clyde has served in Congress since 2021. He was delivered to American parents, making him a US inhabitant at birth.
Dan Crenshaw (R)
State: Texas
District: 02
Place of birth: Scotland
Crenshaw has served in Congress since 2019. He was delivered to American parents, making him a US inhabitant at birth.
Sharice Davids (D)
State: Kansas
District: 03
Place of birth: Germany
Davids has served in Congress since 2019. She was delivered in Germany to a mother who served 20 years in the US Army, making her a US inhabitant at birth.
Diana DeGette (D)
State: Colorado
District: 01
Place of birth: Japan
DeGette has served in Congress since 1997. She was delivered in Japan during her begetter served in the US armed forces, making her a US inhabitant at birth.
Adriano Espaillat (D)
State: New York
District: 13
Place of birth: Dominican Republic
Espaillat has served in Congress since 2017. He came to the US as a kid and became a naturalized US inhabitant in the first 1980s. Espaillat is the archetypal formerly undocumented associate of Congress.
Jesús G. "Chuy" García (D)
State: Illinois
District: 04
Place of birth: Mexico
García has served in Congress since 2019. He emigrated to Illinois in 1965 and became a US inhabitant in 1977.
Robert Garcia (D)
State: California
District: 42
Place of birth: Peru
Garcia has served in Congress since 2023. He emigrated to the US whenever he was a young kid and became a naturalized inhabitant in his first 20s.
Carlos A. Gimenez (R)
State: Florida
District: 28
Place of birth: Cuba
Gimenez has served in Congress since 2021. His family emigrated to Miami in 1960, and he became a US inhabitant in 1976.
James A. Himes (D)
State: Connecticut
District: 04
Place of birth: Peru
Himes has served in Congress since 2009. He was delivered to American parents, making him a US inhabitant at birth.
Pramila Jayapal (D)
State: Washington
District: 07
Place of birth: India
Jayapal has served in Congress since 2017. She emigrated from India at age 16 in 1982 and became a naturalized inhabitant in 2000.
Young Kim (R)
State: California
District: 40
Place of birth: South Korea
Kim has served in Congress since 2021. She emigrated to the US at age 12 and afterward became a naturalized US citizen.
Raja Krishnamoorthi (D)
State: Illinois
District: 08
Place of birth: India
Krishnamoorthi has served in Congress since 2017. The exact twelvemonth of his naturalization is not in the community record, but he moved to the US alongside his family as a child.
Ted Lieu (D)
State: California
District: 36
Place of birth: Taiwan
Lieu has served in Congress since 2015. The exact twelvemonth of his naturalization is not in the community record, but he moved to the US alongside his family as a child.
Ilhan Omar (D)
State: Minnesota
District: 05
Place of birth: Somalia
Omar has served in Congress since 2019. She was naturalized in 2000, five years following arriving in the US from Kenya, anywhere her family had lived in a displaced person campsite following fleeing Somalia.
David Rouzer (R)
State: North Carolina
District: 07
Place of birth: Germany
Rouzer has served in Congress since 2015. He was delivered at Landstuhl Army Medical Center in Germany, anywhere his begetter was stationed, making him a US inhabitant at birth.
Raul Ruiz (D)
State: California
District: 25
Place of birth: Mexico
Ruiz has served in Congress since 2013. He was delivered in Mexico and raised in Coachella, California, following his aunt and uncle adopted him as a baby. He is a naturalized US citizen.
Victoria Spartz (R)
State: Indiana
District: 05
Place of birth: Ukraine
Spartz has served in Congress since 2021. She arrived in the US in 2000 and became a US inhabitant in 2006.
Marilyn Strickland (D)
State: Washington
District: 10
Place of birth: South Korea
Strickland has served in Congress since 2021. She was delivered to an American officer begetter and Korean mother, making her a US inhabitant at birth.
Shri Thanedar (D)
State: Michigan
District: 13
Place of birth: India
Thanedar has served in Congress since 2023. He was naturalized in 1988 following emigrating from India a decade earlier.
Norma J. Torres (D)
State: California
District: 35
Place of birth: Guatemala
Torres has served in Congress since 2015. She emigrated to the US as a young kid in the first 1970s and became a naturalized inhabitant in 1992.
Eugene Simon Vindman (D)
State: Virginia
District: 07
Place of birth: Ukraine
Vindman has served in Congress since 2025. The exact twelvemonth of his naturalization is not in the community record, but he moved to the US alongside his family as a child.
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