EXCLUSIVE: GOP Rep Goes After Loophole Allowing Chinese To Abuse Birthright Citizenship In Northern Mariana Island
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Robert McGreevy
Reporter
February 13, 2025
Republican Wisconsin Rep. Tom Tiffany asked Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) Kristi Noem to end a loophole that allows Chinese nationals to visit the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), a US territory, without a visa, in a letter exclusively shared with the Daily Caller.
Specifically, Tiffany requested that Noem take steps to end the January 2024 rule called the “Guam-Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Visa Waiver Program Automation and Electronic Travel Authorization; Creation of CNMI Economic Vitality & Security Travel Authorization Program (EVS-TAP).”
The Biden-era rule continues an Obama program which allowed “‘categorical’ parole” to Chinese nationals to travel to CNMI, according to Tiffany.
As a result of the program, he wrote, Chinese citizens “were able to sidestep the legal requirement that they first obtain a tourist visa before entering the CNMI.”
The loophole, Tiffany continued, has led to a “troubling rise in ‘birth tourism.'”
https://dailycaller.com/2025/02/13/tom-tiffany-dhs-kristi-noem-birth-tourism-loophole-chinese-mariana-islands/
