Ending Birth Tourism

Key Points

• The order directs the State Department and Homeland Security to deny visas, revoke travel authorization, and permanently bar entry to foreign nationals found to be traveling to the US specifically to give birth.
• Birth tourism is officially defined as entering the US on a nonimmigrant visa to give birth, or helping someone else do so.
• The order also targets companies and individuals who run birth tourism businesses, allowing the government to take action against operators, hotels, and facilitators inside or outside the US.
• Officials can still let people in for humanitarian reasons or if it serves the national interest, so the ban is not absolute.
• The administration frames this as protecting the value of citizenship and closing a loophole where temporary visa holders try to gain lasting immigration benefits for themselves and their children.