Q&A – What Can Be Done to Curb Birth Tourism?

The State Department does publish VISA denial rates, however, it’s across broad categories and pregnancy isn’t one of those categories. In the prior three years, denial rates have ranged from 20.6% of applications to 27.8% most recently. In the most recent fiscal year just under 2.5 million VISA requests into the United States were denied – so it is clear that officials are at least attempting to mind the store.