Thursday, September 24, 2026 - The Trump Administration on Wednesday announced that it was moving to restrict visas to individuals who “engage in or facilitate” birth tourism, arguing that the practice exploits the immigration system by enabling people to obtain American citizenship for profit.
“By restricting visa issuance of those who both engage in
and profit from this fraud, we are sending a clear message: The United States
will not allow foreigners to exploit our immigration system and violate the
sanctity of US citizenship,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a
statement here.
Rubio said the move targets individuals who knowingly engage
in, have engaged in, or facilitate birth tourism to the United States.
He said such individuals include owners, operators, and
managers of commercial birth tourism facilitation networks, visa “fixers” who
coach applicants to commit fraud, foreign medical providers who knowingly abet
and facilitate such travel and the fraudulent use of the Medicaid system, and
other individuals who support, abet, and enable commercial birth tourism.
Birth tourism is the practice of traveling to the United
States for the primary purpose of giving birth so the child obtains US citizenship.
Last month, President Donald Trump signed two executive
orders withholding citizenship documentation from certain children born on US
soil and restricting entry for “birth tourism.”
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