Airlines don’t want you to give birth on the plane, so they have special policies for pregnant women approaching their due date. It’s common, for instance, to require a doctor’s note for travel within four weeks of the woman’s due date stating that she’s fit to fly. However immigration attorney Brad Bernstein says that airlines have been told not to allow non-resident women who are “heavily pregnant” to fly to the United States because there’s a risk they’ll give birth here. It’s legal for a foreign woman to give birth in the United States If she’s coming here for the purpose of giving birth that’s illegal However the child still becomes a citizen, and allows for priority in their eventually sponsoring relatives to come to the U.S. as well. Enilria is not surprised, noting that…
