U.S. gov't announces intent to slash citizenship renunciation fee by four-fifths

Re:U.S. gov't announces intent to slash citizenship renuncia... by pigsty on Sunday January 08, 2023 @12:42AM (#34296419)

That’s quite a large number especially considering Americans have one of the lowest emigration rates of any country. I think one reason it’s “low” is many destinations Americans permanently move to allow dual citizenship and Americans don’t deal with the hassle of renouncing when they can generally just ignore taxes and for the most part have no problems. Or the process of renouncing is such a pain in the ass they prefer to get a long term residence visa for their new country that doesn’t allow dual citizenship and just accept that America makes leaving difficult as a form of punishment and just not bother with the insane process at all.

If it were free and doable with a single signed page, a passport to hand over, and proof of new citizenship, I think numbers would be way higher.

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Re:U.S. gov't announces intent to slash citizenship renuncia... by fbdab103 on Sunday January 08, 2023 @03:49AM (#34297277)

The USA is ~330 million people. ~6000 annual people is not enough to register on any kind of metric as a signal. Even if the "true" number were a 100k, you are talking about 0.03% of the total population.

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Re:U.S. gov't announces intent to slash citizenship renuncia... by pigsty on Sunday January 08, 2023 @04:15AM (#34297431)

Because as I stated, very few people emigrate from the US to begin with.

Within the group this affects (permanent emigrants from the US), it’s not a small number. Especially considering it’s such a difficult and expensive process that most don’t bother with it for those reasons.

There were more US citizenship renunciations than there were total births in Wyoming in 2020. But we don’t just ignore the existence of issues affecting people from Wyoming because “essentially nobody lives there.”

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