The Trump administration will impose restrictions on visas for pregnant foreign women to prevent 'birth tourism' aimed at gaining U.S. citizenship for the child.
The Trump administration moved Thursday to impose restrictions on tourist visas for pregnant foreign women to prevent so-called birth tourism aimed at gaining U.S. citizenship for the child.The rules, which take effect Friday, could make it more difficult for some women of child-bearing age to obtain visas, but it remained unclear how effective the restrictions will be. Consular officers already have broad discretion in issuing visas.
as their destination. Last year, federal authorities in Orange County and elsewhere busted several operations that they described as birth tourism companies, with names like USA Happy Baby and You Win USA Vacation Services. A number of suspects were arrested on a variety of immigration fraud and other charges.
It remained unclear how the rules could be enforced. They appear to allow broad discretion to consular officers who would have to judge a pregnant traveler’s motivations.The State Department official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity in keeping with its protocol, insisted consular officers had been “expressly told” not to ask every female traveler if she is pregnant or intended to become pregnant.
Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst for the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, said consular officers already had broad leeway in granting visas, but the new rules could put “significant pressure” on officers to vet more stringently.for certain conservative individuals and for this administration,” she said.
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