"Are you coming … to give birth?"

I arrived today in New Zealand and noted that the "Passenger Arrival Card" asks the usual questions about one's identity, purpose for travel, money carried – as well as this one (#8): "Are you coming to New Zealand for medical treatment or consultation or to give birth?"

Comment: This is the wave of the future, I suspect, a way of preempting the phenomenon of anchor babies that other governments will imitate. (August 22, 2010)

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