A foreign visitor comes to Canada pregnant, has her baby here and the baby becomes automatically a Canadian citizen.
This also happens in the US and it's very big business in the US bringing pregnant moms to the US, giving them shelter and birth services just so the babies can become US citizens.
It's a back door approach to be able to sponsor the parents later in life so the parents can retire in the West at taxpayer expense.
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The baby houses, as they are called in Asia, are used by women seeking instant Canadian citizenship for their newborns.
The internal briefing document, titled Birth by Non-B.C. Residents, was created in response to a Vancouver Sun story last year about the three-fold increase since 2009 of non-resident births.
A department in Victoria called the Audit and Investigations Branch, Eligibility, Compliance and Enforcement Unit (ECEU) knows about 26 private residences offering hospitality services to foreign pregnant women. It said the residences are used by two groups.
The first includes those in Canada on a temporary resident document, such as a tourist visa, work or study permit. They come to deliver a baby “who by birth is then granted Canadian citizenship status.” They do not access Medical Services Plan-funded benefits and “they declare themselves as self-pay at hospitals and to doctors.”
The second category includes permanent residents properly enrolled in MSP, but at some point cease to meet the definition under the Medicare Protection Act. They return to their country of origin but remain enrolled in the MSP. They then return to B.C. to have a baby and since they still have MSP coverage, bills related to the mother and baby are billed to the plan. They stay long enough to obtain a birth certificate, a Canadian passport and enrolment in MSP for the baby before returning to their country of origin.
Birth tourism from China a booming business in B.C. | Vancouver Sun
This also happens in the US and it's very big business in the US bringing pregnant moms to the US, giving them shelter and birth services just so the babies can become US citizens.
It's a back door approach to be able to sponsor the parents later in life so the parents can retire in the West at taxpayer expense.
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The baby houses, as they are called in Asia, are used by women seeking instant Canadian citizenship for their newborns.
The internal briefing document, titled Birth by Non-B.C. Residents, was created in response to a Vancouver Sun story last year about the three-fold increase since 2009 of non-resident births.
A department in Victoria called the Audit and Investigations Branch, Eligibility, Compliance and Enforcement Unit (ECEU) knows about 26 private residences offering hospitality services to foreign pregnant women. It said the residences are used by two groups.
The first includes those in Canada on a temporary resident document, such as a tourist visa, work or study permit. They come to deliver a baby “who by birth is then granted Canadian citizenship status.” They do not access Medical Services Plan-funded benefits and “they declare themselves as self-pay at hospitals and to doctors.”
The second category includes permanent residents properly enrolled in MSP, but at some point cease to meet the definition under the Medicare Protection Act. They return to their country of origin but remain enrolled in the MSP. They then return to B.C. to have a baby and since they still have MSP coverage, bills related to the mother and baby are billed to the plan. They stay long enough to obtain a birth certificate, a Canadian passport and enrolment in MSP for the baby before returning to their country of origin.
Birth tourism from China a booming business in B.C. | Vancouver Sun