Don’t follow the trend of giving birth in the United States. Look rationally at the advantages and disadvantages of having children in the United States.

Introduction: Audiences who have watched the movie "Beijing Meets Seattle" may still remember that the heroine played by Tang Wei traveled to the other side of the ocean to give birth to a child, and experienced a series of bizarre encounters. This movie is originally a love story, but it has once again made "going to the United States to give birth" a hot topic. In fact, every real-life version of "Beijing Meets Seattle"...

The picture shows a screenshot of "Beijing Meets Seattle"

The past and present of giving birth in the United States

The reason for the rise of going to the United States to give birth can be traced back to 1868, the day the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed. Section 1 of the United States Amendment states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.” The implication is that everyone born on American soil is an American. . In April 2006, the U.S. Embassy in China announced that Chinese citizens could apply for tourist visas to the United States. The opening of this policy has allowed some high-income Chinese families to realize their dreams of having children abroad.

Going to the United States to have children is popular

Many people want to immigrate abroad, but the threshold for immigrating is high, and it takes a lot of effort to do everything possible to immigrate as an adult. Chinese parents who want their children to succeed hope that their children can win at the starting line and have a good "originality", so becoming an American at birth is obviously the best choice, which can be said to be once and for all. Therefore, in recent years, it has become a fashion for mainland Chinese mothers to go to the United States with travel or business visas, give birth to "American" babies while staying in the United States, and then bring them back to China to raise them after they are one month old. "Going to the United States to give birth" has also become a trend. The main projects of some intermediaries.

According to a survey, in 2007, only about 600 Chinese went to the United States to give birth. Five years later, this number exceeded 10,000. In Jiangsu alone, about 700 pregnant women went to the United States to give birth in the first half of last year, half of whom were from Nanjing. Many organizations have adopted the slogan "Give me 100,000 yuan and I'll give you an American baby worth 9.8 million yuan." Many people wonder whether giving birth to an "American baby" can really create a value of nearly 10 million yuan? What's the crisis hidden behind the glamor of "going to the United States to have a baby"?

Why do you support going to the United States to give birth?

A well-known portal website conducted an online survey last year on "Do you support Chinese pregnant women going to the United States to give birth?" In the survey question "Why did you choose to go to the United States to have children?", 42.86% of netizens chose to go to the United States to have children in order to obtain U.S. citizenship for their children; 23.95% of netizens "hoped to further improve their children's status as U.S. citizens." I also immigrated to the United States."

Proportion of academic qualifications for choosing to go to the United States to give birth

In the survey on "Proportion of educational qualifications for choosing to give birth in the United States", the academic qualifications of netizens who choose or consider choosing to give birth in the United States are concentrated at the undergraduate level. The proportion is as high as 47.39%; and master's and doctoral degrees account for 19.13%. It can be seen that highly educated people are the concentrated group in this survey, and they are also the "new force" who choose to go to the United States to give birth.

Main reasons for immigrating abroad

In the "Main reasons for immigrating abroad" survey, 67.9% of netizens chose "wanting to live a healthy life in a better natural environment", and nearly 20% of netizens chose "To obtain a better education for our children."

No matter what the reason is, if you choose the path of "going to the United States to have a baby", you will face a series of more serious problems: How to go to the United States? How to naturalize after giving birth to a child? After naturalization, should I return to my country or stay? Many problems cannot be solved by determination and money.

"Going to the United States to give birth" is praised to the heavens

Almost all agency companies that handle "going to the United States to give birth" will promote the top ten advantages of "American babies":

· The baby has American status as soon as he is born, enjoys social treatment and medical benefits in the United States, will never return to the United States in his life, and will also have a pension when he is old.

· Babies who are one month old can be brought back to China to be raised and enjoy 13 years of free compulsory education from public elementary school to high school in the United States.

· The threshold for entering prestigious universities and research institutes in the United States is lowered. Tuition fees are 10% of those for foreign students. You can enjoy exclusive scholarships for U.S. citizens and grants with a low interest rate of 1%.

· Children can apply for green cards for their parents when they are 21 years old.

· Priority will be given to important leadership positions in government agencies, public institutions, and large enterprises in the United States after being born in the United States. Key positions such as official military affairs, defense diplomacy, and high-tech core laboratories are strictly limited to the United States. citizen.

· American babies enjoy visa-free treatment with more than 180 diplomatic countries, making entry and exit convenient.

· No marriage certificate or birth certificate is required for birth in the United States. Giving birth to a second or third child in the United States does not violate China's family planning policy.

· The United States has a military recruitment system and does not require military service.

· Even if U.S. citizens encounter air blockades in other countries, they can still enjoy priority rights to take flights under the protection of the U.S. government.

· American babies have the opportunity to re-choose their nationality after reaching the age of 18.

From this point of view, having a child in the United States is simply a "stable business" with "low investment and high return"! Some companies even claim that going to the United States to give birth is more rewarding than robbing a bank, but without the high risks.

Someone once calculated an account. From the time when you go to the United States to prepare for pregnancy until the child is one month old, the total value of having an American baby is about 9.8 million yuan! How many mainland Chinese people are eager to go to the United States to have children.

"Going to the United States to give birth to a baby" is a dream that is hard to come true

But unfortunately, Taimei's promise was because she was too young, and Taimei's story was just an illusion. Spending a lot of money and taking risks to have an "American baby" may not be that easy.

First of all, you have to go through six hurdles when going to the United States to give birth:

The first hurdle: choose a reliable agency and choose a confinement center.

The second level: the difficult-to-get visa.

The third level: strict customs inspection.

The fourth level: preparation, delivery, and confinement.

Level 5: How to bring your baby back to China smoothly.

Level 6: Obligations and Rights of U.S. Citizenship.

In addition, most people who go to the United States to give birth only go to help their babies obtain American citizenship, and then return to China to live. However, if the child does not have Chinese nationality, the child will also encounter many problems in going to school, registering, and seeing a doctor in China. Neither China nor the United States recognizes dual nationality, so nationality conflicts will also occur.

Even as a U.S. citizen, you can enjoy many benefits. However, those who do not work in the United States and do not pay taxes after the age of 16 can enjoy extremely limited benefits. Parents who want to apply for a green card through the "dependence" of their American baby should not be too optimistic. Because you need to provide tax declaration certificate and financial ability guarantee certificate when applying. Applying for a green card can take several years just to queue up and go through the procedures. After approval, there will be "immigration supervision".

Today, "going to the United States to have children" is actually taking advantage of a loophole in American law, and this loophole will sooner or later be filled by the American government. In view of the intensifying phenomenon of people traveling to the United States to give birth, U.S. Democratic and Democratic congressmen hope to hold hearings to discuss and review relevant regulations.

From visa to delivery, expectant mothers must “pass” every step. Do you still remember the scene in "Beijing Meets Seattle" where Tang Wei smiled playfully and made jokes to cover up himself when entering the United States? Most pregnant women who go to the United States to give birth have experienced such a scene. The United States officially recognizes that it is not illegal for non-residents to have children in the United States. However, in order to obtain a tourist visa, pregnant mothers often lie in exchange. On the surface, they are traveling for sightseeing, but secretly they are expecting to have a baby. In fact, this is a kind of "fraud" that deliberately deceives the American government.

In fact, these are not the biggest risks and difficulties. The biggest "enemy" for pregnant women who go to the United States to give birth is life in a foreign country. From waiting to delivery is a long process. Pregnant women in a foreign country need care and companionship. If there is no specific development plan in the United States, or there are no reliable relatives and friends living in the United States, you can only rely on the visa time to take care of the pregnant woman in the United States. , children will be very troublesome, even unrealistic.

Many pregnant women will also rely on confinement centers. These confinement centers are located in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and other places. They are specially designed for foreigners who have immigrated to the United States to confine themselves and give birth in the United States. Mothers of their children receive services such as food and accommodation, transportation, contact with hospitals, and agency documents. In addition to confinement centers, there are also a large number of "homestays" that provide postpartum and confinement services. The fees in such places are relatively low. Pregnant women generally live in a house with their boss. The house where Tang Wei lives in "Beijing Meets Seattle" The place falls into this type of confinement club, and the quality of living is generally difficult to guarantee.

However, the real situation is that neither confinement centers nor B&Bs have obtained commercial registration from the United States ***. Once a dispute arises between pregnant women and confinement centers, pregnant women who are unfamiliar with the place of birth will be on the weak side. It is normal for them to be bullied. If they want to defend their rights and file a lawsuit, their chances of winning are very small.

When the baby is finally born, is it over? Of course not. In terms of children's education, education after the age of 5 in the United States is tuition-free, but preschool education before the age of 5 needs to be paid for at your own expense. There are very few public kindergartens in the United States, and most of them are private kindergartens with higher fees, ranging from US$600 to US$800 per month. It is not easy to choose to go back to China to go to kindergarten. Everyone in China knows this. Generally speaking, if you have sufficient financial security or plan to develop overseas, you can choose to have an American baby, but you just want the child to become an American citizen, without objectively considering your current situation and lack of knowledge about the United States. Understanding the situation, blindly following the trend, or even dreaming of immigrating, requires very careful consideration.

How much to go to the United States to have a baby?

Of course, no amount of difficulties can stop parents from giving birth to American babies, and cost is the topic that everyone is most concerned about. Only with a certain financial foundation can we create the conditions to have a baby in the United States. So how much does it cost to have a baby in the United States?

In short, if you spend 1,400 US dollars on a round-trip air ticket between China and the United States, spend 15,000 to 20,000 US dollars to live in a confinement center for 3 months, you can basically invest 100,000 yuan to give birth to an American baby. . In fact, it’s not that simple at all. The minimum cost of having a baby in the United States is 100,000 yuan, 150,000 yuan is more common, and only more than 200,000 yuan can be slightly more comfortable. The so-called all-inclusive package of 100,000 yuan by the agency does not include air tickets, hospital fees, etc.

During the entire stay in the United States, almost all aspects require expenses.

Almost all agencies will charge additional fees for all unmentioned steps after the pregnant woman arrives in the United States. There is a fee for prenatal check-up, a fee for hospital delivery, a fee for visa extension, a fee for accompanying relatives, a fee for assisting in applying for a passport, a fee for assisting in applying for insurance...

For example, in Natural delivery in Los Angeles: The doctor costs 1,800-2,000 US dollars; the hospital costs 2,500-3,000 US dollars, plus the examination fee, the total cost is 5,000 US dollars. If it is a caesarean section, the doctor and hospital fees are about 2,000 US dollars, and an extra day in the hospital is 1,200 US dollars. Once a child is born prematurely and has to be placed in an incubator, or is admitted to the ICU due to illness, or is exposed to blue light for jaundice, it will cost 1,000 to 3,000 US dollars per day. This "sky-high price" is really hard to bear.

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The picture above is a poll set by a website at the end of the page after introducing various aspects of "going to the United States to give birth". The results of the survey are obvious. It goes without saying.

America is the dream of many people. What is it about the United States that is so attractive? Everyone who wants to go there may have their own ideas and reasons, not just material and environmental attractions, but also spiritual attractions. Being an American means that you can gain a foothold in American society through your own efforts, own a house, a car, a comfortable life, and excellent benefits. Even if you are unemployed, you will not starve or freeze. When people can even become the president of the United States with grassroots power, such a country truly achieves freedom and human rights. It represents that anyone living on this land across the ocean can have a hope of survival in this society.

As a person born in a developing country, I cannot choose my own origin, so I hope to use human power to change "God's will" and let my children have American passports. From the moment they come to this world, they have Opportunities to enjoy high-quality education, welfare and living environment in the United States; at the same time, an industry chain for childbirth in the United States has gradually developed to serve them. Amidst the “grey” and speculative atmosphere, Chinese parents and businesses are each pursuing their own dreams.

Going to the United States to give birth to a baby, so that the baby becomes an enviable "American citizen" as soon as he is born, has become the most fashionable way for some "elite parents" in China to express their love for their children. . However, can giving birth to an "American baby" really bring good luck once and for all to the child or even the entire family? Not to mention that the act of "going to the United States to have a baby" itself involves taking advantage of legal loopholes. Many people go through a lot of heartache and deception in the process of going abroad to have a baby. This is a gray area of ??"die in the light". Under the encouragement of intermediaries, people believe that giving birth to an "American baby" will bring them a halo of glory, but the results we have seen are exactly the opposite. This phenomenon deserves deep thought by each of us and even the entire society.