Each year, 5,000 to 6,000 Americans renounce U.S. citizenship mostly for tax-related and logistical reasons but politics is now playing a more central role, lawyers say.
LONDON — On the morning after the U.S. election last November, an American living in London woke up, read that Donald Trump would be returning to the White House and sent an email to the U.S. Embassy. It said, in essence, I want a divorce.
A year later, the country of his birth is about to grant his request not to be an American any more.
The man, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he fears retribution by the Trump administration, is in the final phase of expatriation, the process of formally renouncing his U.S. citizenship.
The author wants you to believe more Americans are renouncing citizenship when in fact all that is happening is an uptick in those citing “politics” as the reason for their choice… lawyers say.
