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The United States government first released a list of former U.S. citizens in a State Department letter to Congress made public by a 1995 Joint Committee on Taxation report. [4] That report contained the names of 978 people who had relinquished U.S. citizenship between January 1, 1994 and April 25, 1995. [5]
Relinquishment of United States nationality encompasses relinquishment of United States citizenship. "Nationality" and "citizenship" are distinct under U.S. law: all people with U.S. citizenship also have U.S. nationality, but American Samoans and some residents of the Northern Mariana Islands have U.S. nationality without citizenship. [7]
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 ...
A native of Capari in the former Yugoslavia, Acevska came to the United States with her family in 1966. [5] [6] She relinquished U.S. citizenship in 1995 to become the first Macedonian Ambassador to the United States. [7] N/A 1995: No: Valdas Adamkus: Politician Naturalized Lithuania: Adamkus was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, and came to Chicago ...
Getty Images More Americans are deciding that they'd rather give up their citizenship than pay more taxes. The Wall Street Journal reports that 2013 has already set a new record for "expatriations ...
From 2013 to 2024, an average of 860,000 babies were born to foreign-born mothers each year, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics. While total births in the US have ...
Immigration to the United States over time by region. In 2022 there was 46,118,600 immigrant residents in the United States or 13.8% of the US population according to the American Immigration Council. The number of undocumented or illegal immigrants stood at 9,940,700 in 2022 making up 21.6% of all immigrants or 3% of the total US population. [1]
Originally, under the Foreign Investors Tax Act of 1966, people determined to be giving up citizenship for the purpose of avoiding US taxation were subject to 10 years of continued taxation on their US-source income, to prevent ex-citizens from taking advantage of special tax incentives offered to foreigners investing in the United States. [58]