Chinese national pleads guilty to running 'birth tourism' scheme in US

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Chinese national pleads guilty to running 'birth tourism' scheme in US
[AFP News]   AFP News   17 September 2019

A Chinese national pleaded guilty on Tuesday to federal charges of running a "birth tourism" scheme in California that catered to wealthy Chinese clients, including government officials, who paid large sums of money so their children would be US citizens.

Dongyuan Li, 41, admitted in her plea agreement that between 2013 and March 2015, her company -- called "You Win USA Vacation Services -- assisted mainly Chinese foreign nationals who were pregnant to travel to the US and give birth.

The company website advertised that it had catered to more than 500 Chinese birth tourism customers who, according to officials, were housed in 20 apartments in Irvine, south of Los Angeles.

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