The cancellation of the double-Africa incident in Hong Kong and the relaxation of Chinese mainland's visa policy to the United States have brought a certain boost to the industry, but also brought a devastating blow. With the influx of many monthly centers and domestic institutions, the rapid decline of service quality cannot be hidden under the vicious competition of low prices. Whether it is the Yuezi Center or the B&B, the risk of grey management can't bring the expected profit, so it is forced to cut costs, reduce baby care and control the procurement cost of catering. The decrease of managers and various services and advantages of domestic publicity and competition have become the source of comparison and dissatisfaction of pregnant mothers. With the dissatisfaction and protest of pregnant mothers, many of them even went to the extent of larger foe (service providers were fined and pregnant mothers refused to sign for a long time after being recorded).
In the propaganda of many domestic intermediaries, customers spend 654.38 million yuan to choose to give birth in the United States, which will gain more advantages in the future: children born in the United States will have de facto dual nationality; Children studying in some cities in Chinese mainland can also enjoy similar treatment as overseas Chinese; More importantly, according to the current immigration laws and regulations in the United States, non-American parents will be able to obtain an American green card with extremely convenient conditions when their children with American citizenship reach adulthood.
"It is the dream of parents in many developing countries to choose to give birth to their next generation in developed countries," explained Park Kwong-sing, an associate professor at the School of Ethnology and Sociology of Minzu University of China. "The services and benefits provided by the United States to its citizens will not catch up with China for a while." These better social services are quantified by the agent's advertisement: if you spend 65,438+10,000 yuan to give birth in the United States, the customer will get an American baby worth 9.8 million yuan.
However, the benefits brought by this seemingly high input-output ratio will be lost at any time with the changes in relevant policies between China and the United States.
Strictly speaking, at present, the monthly centers and homestays in the United States can only be regarded as unlicensed monthly families. At present, all the contracts provided by domestic agents do not include visa fees, air tickets and the cost of choosing a hospital for production in the United States, which is also an objective way to avoid potential legal risks. According to the survey, the vast majority of domestic agents of American Yuezi Center were established in the name of "Business Consulting Co., Ltd." in the Administration for Industry and Commerce. The legal business scope related to giving birth to children in the United States is "tourism consulting service", the nature of which is to play the edge ball.
A typical customer should at least have the independent ability to successfully apply for a US visa. This is also the most important prerequisite for giving birth in the United States. The American Embassy objectively helps Confucius Center and agents to screen customers in advance, and relaxing visas actually makes some of them different.
Around 2008, the United States opened the application for individual tourist visa to China, which is an important condition for pregnant women from China to give birth in the United States. Since then, domestic residents with a certain educational background, income ability and language ability can obtain a travel or business visa to the United States as long as they are determined by the US visa officer to have no immigration tendency. Among all kinds of American visas, tourist visa has the shortest validity period, but it also has six months, which makes it a "passport" for pregnant women in China to give birth in the United States.
Once you decide to go to the United States to have a baby, the relevant preparations begin when you are just two months pregnant, including applying for a visa and booking an American month center through an intermediary. "Now a good month center is a scarce resource, and porridge is not enough to eat." Many people who are familiar with the American Moon Center say that after the appointment is completed, the pregnant woman will go to the United States two months earlier than the expected date of delivery, and will continue to sit in the American Moon Center after the delivery is completed, so the entire stay of the pregnant woman in the United States is three months.
However, in the United States, the most critical production link needs to be chosen by pregnant women. Of course, the expenses paid by pregnant women in the hospital are not included in the agency contract of Ziyue Center.
Production is the most dangerous link in the whole chain, and American law does not allow any company to give birth for pregnant women. Any pregnant woman in the United States has the right to choose any hospital to give birth. As a month center, she can only introduce pregnant women to doctors who have long-term cooperation with the month center in the industrial chain. Generally, they are China doctors with legal licenses.
In addition, the confinement center is responsible for the services of expectant and confinement pregnant women during their stay in the United States. Pregnant women in Yuezi Center need to live with dozens of other pregnant women who are also about to give birth in China.
After giving birth to a child in the United States, at the end of the industrial chain, there is also a sub-agent, that is, an agency that handles American passports and China travel permits for children. In the current Los Angeles market, a pregnant woman needs to spend $280, wait for three weeks, get the above two legal documents through her agent, and add the American birth certificate issued by the hospital, so that a de facto dual-nationality baby can return to China.
China does not recognize dual citizenship at present, so even if a pregnant woman from China gives birth to a baby in the United States, the baby will still be officially regarded as a citizen of China after giving birth.
According to the Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China, one or both parents are China citizens, and I was born in a foreign country and have China nationality. When I go to China, I should apply for a travel document for China. Therefore, a certificate named "China Travel Pass" will be the only legal proof that a baby born through the American Moon Center is officially recognized. Children with China Travel Pass can use this card until 18 years old. At that time, when he was able to think independently, he had to make a choice, either to keep his China citizenship or to become an American citizen.
In the publicity of a considerable number of American Moon Center in China, these children with China travel permits and American passports are described as overseas Chinese, who can enjoy preferential policies during their nine-year compulsory education in domestic cities and even during the college entrance examination. However, due to the different overseas Chinese policies in various provinces and cities in China, this preferential treatment may not be implemented in the end. For example, Shanghai, which accounts for a large proportion of secondary target customers in the United States, cannot fulfill this policy.
"Holding a China travel permit is a special case, which means that the child's foreign citizenship has not been recognized by China," a staff member of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office told this newspaper. "After the children's parents return to China, they can use the China Travel Permit to register their children. Once they register their household registration, their legal status is Shanghai residents, not overseas Chinese."
In addition, according to the regulations of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, China citizens can only be regarded as overseas Chinese if they have obtained the long-term or permanent residency in the host country and have lived in the host country for two consecutive years and the cumulative residence time is not less than 18 months. However, the vast majority of pregnant women who go to the United States to give birth choose to return to China immediately after confinement, so the children born do not meet the above conditions for staying abroad.
Under such circumstances, parents who bring their children back to China immediately after giving birth in the United States must make a choice: either apply for a domestic residence account for their children with their China travel permit, become China citizens in the legal sense, and enjoy the same nine-year compulsory education as ordinary children in China; Or continue to let their children hold American passports instead of hukou, then they can only be willing to send their children to study in the United States or spend money on domestic and international schools.
Another college entrance examination policy that is regarded as a preferential measure also has considerable variables. According to the latest policy, even if candidates hold foreign passports, they must prove that they studied abroad in high school before they can be regarded as international students, thus bypassing the college entrance examination and applying directly to domestic universities. Otherwise, they must pass the college entrance examination and squeeze the wooden bridge with the majority of domestic candidates.
However, policy uncertainty has not hit the secondary market of American products. One of the most attractive policies for mainland parents is that according to the current immigration law in the United States, when a child with American nationality reaches the age of 265,438+0, non-American parents will be naturalized with the child, which is the first priority and can be accepted without immigration quota restrictions.
In fact, this gives parents and children another choice. In the next ten years, parents can choose to stay in China or immigrate to the United States according to the changes in China and the United States.
Jony J reminded: Children who go to the United States must find a regular and legally registered month center. St. Jiaer specially reserved a regular, legal and well-known month center for American children, and devoted herself to providing parents with the safest, most efficient, most convenient and high-end maternity service in personal tailor.