Re:Why expat Americans are giving up their passports
by rayiner on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @07:37AM
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My dad was evacuated from Yemen by the military when the civil war there broke out. That blue passport was his ticket out of a country that was rapidly disintegrating. He was not charged anything for that. So they don't always charge you (indeed I've never heard of it).
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Re:Why expat Americans are giving up their passports
by mike_hearn on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @07:51AM
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Re:Why expat Americans are giving up their passports
by rayiner on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @08:03AM
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My dad was evacuated 15-20 years ago. Before that, Yemen was a poor but pretty peaceful country. I think we should evacuate the folks stuck there now, but the state department isn't wrong to say that they've had a lot of notice and shouldn't have been there in the first place.
Re:Why expat Americans are giving up their passports
by xenihn on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @11:41AM
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Didn't know about that situation with US citizens in Yemen, one of the comments posted in response to the LA Times article says Russia ended up evacuating them? Is that true, or just propaganda? The only source is RT..
Re:Why expat Americans are giving up their passports
by 77pt77 on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @11:58AM
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> LA Times article says Russia ended up evacuating them?
This would be irony overload.
For someone who still remembers the cold war this is almost unthinkable.
Re:Why expat Americans are giving up their passports
by knowaveragejoe on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @12:45PM
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How so? The US and RU have a history of helping each other in situations like this.
Re:Why expat Americans are giving up their passports
by ferentchak on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @04:02PM
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Know of any examples where I can read an account of this.
It brings up my Rocky 4 warm fuzzy