Birth Tourism

Want your child to have the citizenship of a different country other than your own or your spouse's? Its pretty simple, first you will need to find a country that follows jus soil, also known as right to soil. After you find your desired country you will travel to this country on vacation. Now you will have to time it just right. You or your spouse will need to be pregnant and you will need to time the vacation around the time the baby will pop out. Now if your lucky your child will be born in the country that follows jus soil and presto! Your baby is now a citizen of that nation and will receive full benefits of that country.

What was described above is the practice of Birth Tourism. Birth Tourism is having your baby born in a place that follows jus soil or some equivalent so that the baby will receive the citizenship in that nation and the benefits of having that citizenship.

Some Korean women have used this practice in order to get their children US citizenship. (Article about a woman who did this) These women uselessly come from the upper class in South Korea and can afford to buy a plane ticket and a tourist visa to get to the United States. These women do it because of many reasons. Some do it to enroll their child into American schools, escape South Korean mandatory military service for males or a combination of both and some other reasons. This practice has also been popular among some women from Taiwan for similar reasons too, like Taiwan's mandatory military service for men.

Birth Tourism is also popular for women from mainland China to have their child born in Hong Kong (Hong Kong Baby Boom). After 1997 Hong Kong was handed back over the People's Republic of China from the United Kingdom, but has had the right to keep their laws and ways of life. Many mainland Chinese women do this for a number of reasons. One reason is the fact Hong Kong does not have follow the One Child Policy. Another reason is Hong Kong's right of abode and anyone born in Hong Kong who's parent is a Chinese citizen or a Hong Kong resident is given the right of abode. The right of abode is the right to legally reside in Hong Kong without any limits. Because of the right of abode many to be mothers from mainland China want their child born in Hong Kong. Not only that but Hong Kong is in many ways cultural different from mainland China, because of Hong Kong's past of being a colony of Great Britain. Hong Kong also does not have to follow all Chinese laws because of Hong Kong's and China's odd relationship.