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Re:Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship by shell0x on Thursday August 05, 2021 @09:51AM (#28073731)
While $2350 is expensive, compare that to Australia. My friend got sponsored by his partner for a partner visa and the fee is AUD7,850 for most applicants.

https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-li...

It's a huge rip-off like everything in this country.

The $2350 seem to be cheaper than fees for filing annual tax returns for the next 50 years :)

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Re:Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship by smnrchrds on Thursday August 05, 2021 @01:05PM (#28076497)
The fee for renouncing Australian citizenship is 265 AUD equivalent to 196 USD.

https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/citizenship/give-up-citizens...

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Re:Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship by GordonS on Thursday August 05, 2021 @12:27PM (#28075939)
On the other side of the equation (getting citizenship, rather than renouncing it), here in the UK I have a Chinese friend for whom it cost over £20k to gain citizenship after she married a local. (this was the total paid to the government over, I think, a 3 year period).
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