America Don Vex Say Dem No Go Approve Visa For Nigerians Wey Wan Travel Just To Born Pikin.
Dem drop di warning yesterday for their official X handle, say anybody wey dey plan birth tourism go face visa wahala.
“We go deny your visa if we believe say your main reason to travel na to born for United States make your pikin get US citizenship. This one no dey permitted. To use your visa travel come US just to born so your pikin go get US citizenship no dey permitted. If consular officers get reason to believe say na wetin you plan, dem go deny your visa,” na wetin the Mission talk for the post.
Birth tourism na practice wey allow pregnant women travel go another country to born pikin, so dem fit secure citizenship for the pikin based on the country birthright citizenship law.
Di practice dey attractive especially for countries wey dey offer jus soli (right of soil), meaning say any pikin wey dem born for di country land go automatically become citizen, no matter wetin di papa or mama nationality or resident status be.
Di practice don dey under serious check recently, especially for America where President Donald Trump sign executive order from the beginning of im administration to end birthright citizenship for pikin wey dia parents dey live illegally for America, starting from February 2025.
Di executive order don cause plenty court wahala since Trump enter office for January.
On Friday, one federal judge issue new nationwide block, wey stop Trump administration from ending di practice. Di ruling wey happen Friday na di third court ruling wey block di birthright order nationwide since one important Supreme Court decision for June wey restrict lower court judges power to issue nationwide injunctions.
Di states talk say Trump birthright citizenship order no follow constitution at all, and e go affect millions of dollars wey dem dey use for health insurance wey depend on citizenship status.
As dem deliver di new ruling, Judge Joseph Laplante yarn say US citizenship “na di biggest privilege wey dey for di world.” Laplante write say e “no get any wahala to conclude say to rush adopt new government policy through executive order without law or national talk wey get questionable constitutional base, wey go deny citizenship to thousands of people wey don already get am before under old correct policy, go cause serious wahala, and say all di people wey join di case fit suffer correct harm if dem no block di policy with injunction.”
