US Birthright Citizenship Ends: A big controversy has arisen in America regarding citizenship. President Donald Trump has abolished the rule of citizenship by birth. Due to this, H-1B visa holders are also worried, because their children’s citizenship has ended.
US Birthright Citizenship: US President Donald Trump has ordered the abolition of birthright citizenship. As soon as he became president, Trump signed an executive order and announced the abolition of birthright citizenship. The new order has come into effect from January 20. For the last 150 years, every person born in America has been getting citizenship of the country, but Trump had talked about ending this system during the election campaign itself.
Although Trump had said during the election campaign that he wanted to end citizenship given to children of illegal immigrants. But due to the new order, H-1B visa holders and their families are also being affected. This order is also going to affect millions of people who have been waiting for decades for a green card. These include Indian citizens as well. Due to the new rule, the education of the children of H-1B visa holders is also going to be affected. Let us know about this in detail.
How are people with H-1B visas being affected?
Indians are at the forefront in getting H-1B visas. After the new order, children of parents living in the US legally or on temporary visas (such as H1B, H-4, or student visas) after February 19, 2025 will not get automatic citizenship even after being born in the country. This also includes families whose mother has a temporary visa and the father is not an American citizen or green card holder. In simple words, if the child of an H-1B visa holder does not have American citizenship, then he will have to leave the country after the age of 21 or stay in the country with some other visa.
How will the education of the children of H-1B visa holders be affected?
The new order for families living in America on H-1B visa will not only take away the citizenship of their children, but their future will also be at stake. The biggest impact will be on the education of children. Earlier, children born to parents who came to America on work or dependent visa used to get American citizenship automatically. In this way, they used to get the benefit of state tuition, scholarship and federal aid for studies as American citizens, but now they are not going to get the benefit of these facilities. In this way, they can study, but as a foreign citizen.
Already H-1B visa holders are facing the uncertainty of Green Card, now they will also have to face the problem of children’s education. Without citizenship, children will either have to leave America on their own after the age of 21 or they can apply for student visa for higher education. Getting a student visa has already been a very challenging task, which will increase their difficulties. Even if they get the visa, they will be considered foreign students. Because of this, they will neither get scholarship nor the benefit of low fees.
