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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids born here when parents live here legally would also get visas or green cards anyway if they didn’t get citizenship. That’s what happens in every other country. After a couple years they would then be eligible for citizenship. [b]I’m one of the people who had a baby here while on green card [/b]and I would have been fine with getting the kids citizenship later rather than immediately at birth. It just saves the country administrative costs to do it at birth. Kids born here when the parents are not living here legally are a completely different situation. Even worse is when they try to use those kids as an excuse to not be deported themselves.

This whole thread is dumb and certainly not the gotcha that some people think it is.[/quote]
Having a Green Card is not the same as been here on a visa.[/quote]

Why not? I had the legal right to live here but wasn’t a citizen. I’d consider green cards in the same category as H1-B for the purposes of having a child in the country. Your life is in the US but you haven’t (yet) got citizenship. Most people on a long term work visa intend to stay long term.[/quote]
H1-B is not a long term visa. [/quote]

It’s a long term professional visa. It gives you the right to bring your spouse to the country with you. It’s not a 2 month visa to pick produce in the fields then go home.[/quote]

Put another way, there’s no actual expectation that you will be returning home on a specific date. And you don’t need to show a return ticket to get entry to the US with those visas.[/quote]
+1 Why does it matter when the visa expires?   If you have a baby  here on an H1 or H2 visa, your baby is a US citizen.

MAGA twisting themselves into a pretzel again.

I recall there were lots of MAGA posters on here before claiming that only children of US citizens or permanent residents should be allowed to have citizenship, and that children of visa holders should not be granted citizenship.

And now that we find that members of Trump's inner circle are "anchor babies", now it's "we only meant for certain types of visas".  Um.. okay...[/quote]

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