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[exit86]

I think what is largely at issue here is the idea of national pride versus national shame. Striving to obtain citizenship for your child in a country in which you yourself are not a citizen is absurd. (My wife and I are Canadian citizens, but we want our baby girl to be a citizen of the far-off country of Sweden . . . . what?????) What are you saying about your real home country: It isn't good enough, it is inferior, it is lacking in enough ways to motivate this huge expenditure of time, money, and effort. For all the pride that Koreans claim to have for their homeland, how are such instances justified?
You are what you are; only someone ashamed of themselves pretends to be someone they aren't.

I say change the wording of the law as well, just to avoid such silliness.
How about a mandatory period of stay prior to the birth, or being under
a US obstetrician's care for at least 6 months or something . . .

[Geckoman]

The article below says that the websites that provide born-in-USA babies in Guam are perfectly legal. So for those who dislike the practice, there is nothing you can do about it. No laws are being broken.

See the article below or at http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081031/NEWS01/810310312&s=d&page=4#pluckcomments .

[jkelly80]

Isn't Japan (like Korea) pretty racialist in its view of citizenship, ie no automatic citizenship? What's the draw of going to Japan to pop out a kid?

[pkang0202]