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The United States has introduced a new route allowing children born on its soil to certain foreign government employees to register for lawful permanent residence, commonly known as a green card.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published an interim final rule on September 9, 2026, establishing the new arrangement.
Identified as Federal Register document number 2026-18345, the rule took effect on September 4, 2026. It applies only to children born on or after that date.
Children born before September 4, 2026, remain subject to the regulations that applied when they were born.
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The new rule applies to children born in the United States where neither parent is an American citizen and at least one parent belonged to one of four qualifying categories of foreign government employees at the time of birth.
According to the Federal Register, the categories are:
DHS explains that children in these categories are treated as not subject to US jurisdiction for birthright citizenship purposes.
