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I was reading this: And also the link you posted. It made me panic and reconsider our whole plan, and here I am back in research mode. Now that I've had time to calm down and process things more, I think it may not be something to worry about. The theme of these cases seem to be about the child being born before the parents received citizenship, and that the child was in their home country with grandma or something. No concern of natural-born citizens, nor I suppose parents with children born after naturalization occurs. *phew* You're right about the rush to get the passport if we had the baby in the US. With just the visitor's visa that's be super tight timing, arriving before a noticeable baby bump, and not leaving until the paperwork is done. Not to mention, that's a legal gray area at best, and not a game really worth playing since the baby gets citizenship by blood. So, I'm back to going with the original plan. Have the baby in Mexico. It's much more calm and less expensive. The baby won't be able to become President of the United States, but that's OK, they can become President of Mexico if they're so inclined. I answered my own question about her spending too much time in Mexico after naturalization...that's the whole point of naturalizing for many people, to avoid the surprise green card rug pull/revocation if they're abroad for more than 6 months.

Me (US Citizen by birth) and my Mexican wife (has visitor visa/BCC, we will be married 2 years as of next month) are planning on having a child. We are currently living in Mexico while I work towards my citizenship here and she levels up her English, since she's terrified about interviews in English. After that's done we were planning on working on her documents for the United States (she only has a border crossing card at the moment) So, my ultimate goal is for my family to be able to freely flip back and forth residence in US/Mexico as my work requires. Our preference is to remain in Mexico and for me to continue to work remotely consulting in the United States, but since finding clients that accept remote work isn't a guarantee, I expect we'll need to live in the US at some point in the future, or at minimum for the duration of her naturalization process when we get to that. So we discussed it and we were planning to have the child here in Mexico, due to the better healthcare situation. But recently I was reading on here, and saw that the US is proactively cancelling the US passports of US citizen children born abroad if they aren't residing in the US. That would throw quite a wrench in our plans, and I'm worried about getting into a mess of juggling trying to finding work for me, navigating her IR-1, and fighting USCIS for some kind of admission for the child. Is it a better idea to have the child on US soil? Are they only going after the children of naturalized citizens, or does this affect everyone? Also, if my wife becomes a naturalized US citizen, will she be stripped of citizenship if we spend too much time in Mexico?