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Re:Green Card Seekers Must Leave U.S. to Apply, Trump Admini... by ViktorRay on Sunday May 24, 2026 @09:29AM (#48257147)
Soviet Union was never the place where large scale immigration happened.

Actually the opposite. There were severe restrictions to emigration. They didn’t want people leaving the Soviet Union (or the satellite states) and going to the West. The Berlin Wall for example. Things weren’t so rosy behind the Iron Curtain.

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Re:Green Card Seekers Must Leave U.S. to Apply, Trump Admini... by nekusar on Sunday May 24, 2026 @09:38AM (#48257203)
For quite a while, the "Cost to renounce citizenship" was at $2350. Turnip lowered it back to $450.

But no, US citizenship, like everything else in this country, a cost.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/travel/renouncing-us-citizens...

And if you have unforgivable student loans because you believed the k-12 propaganda, then you can never "leave". You might be done paying them by the time you, uh, die.

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