Armstrong, in fact, has the right to renounce his citizenship. Several thousand Americans do this every year, but rarely for the reasons given by the best-known singer of “American Idiot. “But Armstrong would swim against the grain. In a typical year, more than 800,000 foreign-born people are fortunately sworn in as U. S. citizens. Many years ago, I was one of them.
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Despite all the vagaries of the past 25 years, from September 11 to wars, economic crises and pandemics, America’s future has never dried up.
It’s because other people understand, even if not everyone at home understands it, that America remains a unique land of opportunity and hope, where private industry is more likely to lead to good fortune and fulfillment than anywhere else.
But what about this flood of high-profile liberals eager to escape Trump’s “fascist state”?Newsweek debunked this myth just two years ago. The fact is that there is a constant network of other people who need to give up their citizenship.
Many of them are other people who have been living for years, even decades, and who simply haven’t been able to do it before. The main impediment is that appointments at U. S. consulates are not available. Uu. S. are difficult to download and the procedure takes time and money.
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The renunciation of citizenship comes with a payment of $2,350, and other living people will have to process the case (involving at least two non-public interviews) at a U. S. embassy. U. S. in your country of residence. When the State Department prioritizes those appointments, wait times are quickly minimized.
However, when they were closed due to COVID, instances of loss of nationality were not a precedent for embassies and consulates. Even now, the U. S. Embassy in Paris claims that the existing waiting time for an interview is “12 to 18 months,” and the London Embassy claims that “the waiting time to get an appointment has increased significantly. “
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As a consular officer, I have dealt with a handful of exemption cases. I found that other people had various reasons for doing so. Some are wealthy and need to escape the highest tax rates in the United States. Others need to evade onerous laws like the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FACTA) of 2010, which requires living Americans to file annual tax returns and report all of their income, bank accounts, and foreign investments. Foreign banks are so wary of penalties for non-compliance with FATCA that many refuse Americans to open an account, seriously complicating a lifeArray
Other “dropouts” come with those, like a French friend of mine who was born in California while his father was a graduate student and unknowingly became a U. S. citizen because of the 14th Amendment. They are a kind of inverted bath anchors; While they are not intended to suit Americans, they are still subject to our rules, which include requirements to enter the U. S. U. S. with a U. S. passport only, log in to the project and register FATCA reports.
Others are naturalized Americans who, years later, return home. Actress Elizabeth Taylor or Carnival Cruises owner Ted Arison fall into that category, and the IRS list from last quarter suggests that several of our latest releases fall into that category as well.
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The maximum non-unusual motivations for renouncing citizenship are non-public or venal, ideological. In my experience, they are very rare.
Celebrity promises to leave because of politics are a lot of hot air. Every 3 months, the IRS publishes a list of Americans who have renounced their citizenship. level), that they would renounce their citizenship if Trump won, it turns out that none did.
Nothing prevents Billie Joe from renouncing her U. S. citizenship: it’s a flexible country. As for me and millions of other naturalized citizens, we are satisfied to be here, even in difficult times.
I prefer “Why the West is Better” through naturalized Somali American Ayaan Hirsi Ali to “Decline of the American Empire” through my fellow Anglo-American John Oliver.
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I worked with many local foreign service workers in positions ranging from Fiji to Togo, and one of my happiest responsibilities was to approve special immigrant visas for staff who had worked 20 years or more for the embassy. In their demands, almost all cited freedom, economic opportunities and a greater future for their children as reasons to put their families behind in life in order and start over.
America’s promise is not much better today. This is the promise of a much better union, and keeping that promise is a collective task. to take our toys and go home.
Born in Britain, Simon Hankinson is a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Centre for Immigration and Border Security. From 1999 to 2023, he served as a foreign service officer in India, Fiji, Ghana, Slovakia, Togo, Washington, DC, Marseille and Nairobi. Before joining the State Department, Hankinson worked as a lawyer in London, then taught history, English and theatre in Miami.