How a US crackdown is upending plans for Chinese ‘birth tourists’

Li, a woman in her late twenties from southwestern China, is anxious about her coming interview for a 10-year US visa.
She has big plans for her travels – a weeks-long stay next year that would be her first visit to the country – followed by a planned return trip in two years while pregnant so her child can attain American citizenship.
But those plans have been thrown into doubt. Last week, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order seeking to end “birth tourism”, tightening scrutiny on...