Washington cracks down on 600 birth tourism cases staged to ‘illegally’ acquire American passports

The US State Department announced a crackdown on birth tourism, where pregnant women travel to the US so their children can obtain American citizenship. An embassy in West Africa uncovered a network of over 100 foreign nationals using fraudulent documents and visa 'fixers'. Another embassy identified more than 400 suspected cases in Europe since 2024. In North Africa, one embassy revoked over 100 visas for 'birth tourist' parents.