- The State Department drafted a rule that would force parents applying for U.S. passports for their U.S.-born kids to prove their own citizenship or immigration status, part of the Trump administration’s push against “birth tourism.”
- The change would tighten current passport rules (parents now just show parentage and ID) and could bar citizenship for children of certain parents (e.g., foreign government workers or people accused of fraud).
- The proposal is already facing lawsuits and skeptical judges — courts could block the policy, as they did with an earlier, broader Trump attempt to curb birthright citizenship.
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