In 18 years the babies can legally register to vote in Florida and vote absentee.
The condominium building two down from us in Miami is chock full of both very attractive pregnant Russian women and Russian women pushing baby carriages. They come and then they go.
In 18 years the babies can legally register to vote in Florida and vote absentee.
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According to some here on FR, in 35 years if they have moved to the US for fourteen years, they can run for President.
Natural born citizen means born here of citizen parents.
There are a number of advantages.
Some hope that the baby could be used to secure visas to the US at a later point. Others think the child’s American passport is an advantage for them. If you plan on sending the kid to college in the US, it would be.
The US doesn’t report investment income to other countries; they could set up investments or just bank accounts in the kids’ name and let it grow, and they pay US tax on the income less than they would at home. If their government seizes their assets, it won’t affect assets in an American citizen’s name in the US.
A minor factor is the fact that we allow assisted reproductive technologies other countries don’t, but that wouldn’t require the women to give BIRTH here. But it is a factor in some people choosing an American surrogate mother over one in another country.