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He would renounce his U.S. citizenship, but after years of stress and campaigning, he refuses to pay the fee to do so. “There’s no question of me paying $2,350,” Lehagre says.
The lawsuit follows a State Department proposal to lower the required fee for renouncing U.S. citizenship.
The Wall Street Journal reports that 2013 has already set a new record for "expatriations," defined as citizens renouncing More Americans Than Ever Are Renouncing Their Citizenship Skip to main ...
Eventually, his belief in liberation theology would lead him to naturalize as a Honduran citizen in September 1974 and then renounce U.S. citizenship as a gesture of support for landless peasants and a measure of protest against the United States' influence in the country. Despite his naturalization, he was deported from the country in 1979 ...
Under Department of Energy guidelines, an action that shows allegiance to a country other than the United States, such as a declaration of intent to renounce U.S. citizenship or actual renunciation of citizenship, demonstrates foreign preference and thus is a ground to deny a security clearance. [186]
Americans who live overseas have been renouncing their US citizenship in record numbers over the past several years. In 2014, nearly 3,500 people bid a permanent adieu to the states, and the year ...
The State Department stated that 1,100 people renounced citizenship at only one particular US consulate post during the first ten months of 2014. [31] There are more than 270 US consular posts. [32] In September 2015, the State Department estimated that there would be 5,986 renunciants and 559 relinquishers during Fiscal Year 2015. [33]
Eduardo Saverin. Brazilian-born Eduardo Saverin became an American citizen when he was 16. Saverin co-founded Facebook and in 2012, he made headlines when he renounced his U.S. citizenship just ...