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CURRENT AFFAIR
- The United States of America is planning to bar pregnant women from attaining visas for “birth tourism”.
RATIONALE
- The measures are to be adopted to curb the number of foreigners who use the visa to secure automatic permanent citizenship for their children by giving birth on American soil.
- The crackdown on “birth tourism” is for public safety and national security as well as to maintain the integrity of the US immigration system because the birth tourism industry threatens to overburden valuable hospital and national resources.
Birth tourism
- It is technically defined as a pregnant woman’s decision to travel to another country for the specific reason of giving birth in that country and hoping to gain citizenship.
Key Points
- B1/B2 visitor visas would no longer be issued to “aliens” seeking to enter the United States for birth tourism.
- Pregnant women will need to provide a specific reason for travel, like medical necessity, beyond giving birth to travel to the US.
- Currently, US law does not bar foreign women from travelling to the US to give birth.
- However, women need to prove that they have the financial means to pay for a medical procedure if that is the reason for the trip.
- The US considers this “a glaring immigration loophole”.
B1/B2 Tourist Visa
- It is a temporary, non-immigrant visa, allowing the holder to travel to the US for business and tourism
Requirements for becoming a U.S. citizen
- Have been born in the US or certain territories or outlying possessions of the US and subject to the jurisdiction of the USHad a parent or parents who were citizens at the time of birth (if the person was born abroad) and meet other requirements.
- Apply for “derived” or “acquired” citizenship through
- Apply for naturalization.
PROTECTIONISM POLICY OF U.S.
- The concept of protectionism refers to economic policies that can be implemented by governments in order to limit trade across countries, whose primary goal is to promote fairer competition and help domestic companies by making their goods more competitive than foreign ones.
- Protectionist policies protect the producers, businesses, and workers of the import-competing sector in a country from foreign competitors. However, they adversely affect consumers in general and harm the producers and workers in export sectors, both in the country implementing protectionist policies, and in the countries protected
Protectionist policies
- Tariffs
- Import quotas
- Administrative barriers
- Anti-dumping legislation
- Direct subsidies
- Exchange rate control
- International patent systems
Citizenship of India
- There are four ways in which Indian citizenship can be acquired: birth, descent, registration and
- The provisions are listed under the Citizenship Act,
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