House Oversight Committee Launches Probe of Four Birth Tourism Companies

The House Oversight Committee is launching an investigation into four companies that provide maternity services to foreign expectant mothers, many from China and Russia. Officials sent letters on Thursday to the firms demanding documents and communications by May 28 regarding their operations and marketing practices.

The companies under review are Have My Baby in Miami, International Maternity Services in El Paso, Texas, Doctores Para Ti, and an OB/GYN clinic in San Diego, California. One of the firms reported on its website that it had facilitated 2,000 births for international mothers.

The companies market their services explicitly to foreign clients and offer additional support such as temporary housing, legal consultations and step-by-step instructions for giving birth in the United States. Officials stated that while it is not inherently illegal for a foreign traveler to give birth in the United States, willfully misrepresenting intentions to enter on a temporary visitor visa constitutes visa fraud.

The letter noted that the benefits of U.S. citizenship are a unique privilege and expressed concerns that the birth tourism industry could create national security and election integrity risks from adversarial nations. Tens of thousands of babies are born each year in the United States to women on tourist visas.

Typically, the mothers enter on B-1 business or B-2 tourist visas. A federal rule published in 2020 stated that the Department considers birth tourism an inappropriate basis for the issuance of temporary visitor visas.

Trump signed an executive order in January 2025 outlawing birthright citizenship. The order faced immediate legal challenges, leading a federal judge to pause its implementation. The case is now under appeal to the Supreme Court. Trump’s Solicitor General John D.

Sauer argued in April that non-U.S. citizens are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and therefore their children born in the country cannot be guaranteed citizenship. Past Supreme Court decisions have upheld automatic citizenship for children of foreign nationals born in the United States, including the 1898 case US v.

Wong Kim Ark. The committee’s letter highlighted that at least one company boasted on social media about facilitating birth tourism. The inquiry seeks to determine the extent of any visa fraud and related activities. The Post reached out to the four companies for comment.