If an Indian working in the U.S. on an H1-B visa has a baby while in the U.S., is that baby a U.S. citizen?

Question

Please provide some evidence to support your answer, rather than a simple "yes", "no" or "not really". Thanks!

Answer 1

Not really.

Answer 2

Not anymore!

There is legislation in action that is proposed to stop the whole anchor baby thing. I hope it gets passed. There is currently a halt on new citizenship that is tied to an anchor child. At this point the baby can stay but the parents have no citizenship. We can only hope the politicians make wise choices. There are many women who die in the desert trying to get to the US

Answer 3

Yes, anybody who is born in US Territory gets US Citizenship.

Answer 4

Yes

Answer 5

Sorry, Indians are not let off the reservations. Thank you.

Answer 6

yes ,

here is a link

http://immigration.findlaw.com/immigrati...

Answer 7

Anyone born in the U.S. is automatically an American Citizen...why do you think so many Mexican Women will risk their lives to get into the U.S. to deliver here?

Answer 8

Yes, that would be an anchor baby. Tell that Indian to hurry up and p**p out a spare anchor baby and you will never need to leave.

Answer 9

Unfortunately, yes.

I take it you mean REAL Indians from India ????  What the stupid heinous Spanish called "indios" here on northern America were not really Indians, they are Mongolians!

We really need international laws to say that unless a person is legally a resident of a nation, then and only then can their baby acquire natizenship in the country where the baby's birth took place.

Babies of visitors and illegals should NOT be given natizenship in the country where the birth took place by international laws, but nobody in government was smart enough to think of that!  Such babies should automatically acquire the natizenship of their parents' home country, and be registered as being born outside of that nation.  The international laws should also say that babies born outside of their parents' home country are entitled to the same national rights of their parents in their original home country!

Also, there is NO such thing as an American citizen, as Kuuipo Michelle calls them.  America is a vertical hemisphere that was named America almost 300 years before our United States OF America was a nation.  Our United States of America is only ONE nation among the other American nations from Canada to Chile and including the Bahaman and Caribbean Islands!  Yes, Cuba is in America as well!  We need to grow up and stop being so arrogant in the world as USAians.