State Department slashes fee to renounce US citizenship by 80% to $450

[misskit]

The State Department has slashed by about 80% the fee for Americans to formally renounce their U.S. citizenship.


After years of legal battles with several groups representing Americans wanting to give up their citizenship, the department on Friday published a final rule in the Federal Register that reduces the cost from $2,350 to $450.


The new fee, which took effect on Friday, had been promised in 2023 but had never been implemented. The cost is now the same as it was when the State Department first started charging Americans to formally renounce their citizenship in 2010.


Renouncing U.S. citizenship can be an intensive and lengthy process. Applicants must repeatedly confirm in multiple written and verbal attestations to a State Department consular officer that they understand the implications of the step before being allowed to take a formal oath of renunciation. It must then be reviewed by the department.

The fee was raised from $450 to $2,350 in 2015 to cover the administrative expenses as the number of people wanting to renounce their citizenship surged in part due to new U.S. tax reporting requirements for American expatriates that angered many.

State Department slashes fee to renounce US citizenship by 80% | AP News

[Bettyboo]

You have to pay, fuk that - just leave... If the IRS or anyone contacts you just tell them you've renounced your citizenship and they can work it out by themselves - I doubt they'll send a Delta Force team to pick you up from your Pattaya condo.

[dirk diggler]

It's quite a flounce and I don't blame them.

Why would you pay taxes to a country you don't live or work in?

But how far does it go and what happens when they need a new passport or lose their overseas employment etc?

How renounced are they?

[dirk diggler]

There is it:

Renouncing U.S. citizenship is
an irrevocable, voluntary act performed in person before a U.S. consular officer outside the U.S., requiring a non-refundable $2,350 fee, as of early 2026. It involves signing an oath of renunciation and results in a Certificate of Loss of Nationality. This process requires tax compliance and results in losing U.S. rights.de.usembassy.gov +4







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• Procedure: You must be physically outside the U.S. to renounce. It typically involves at least two interviews at a U.S. embassy or consulate, with significant wait times in some locations.
• Irrevocability: Renunciation is intended to be permanent, and it cannot be reversed. Re-acquiring citizenship requires starting over as a foreign national.
• Tax Implications: You must certify compliance with all U.S. tax laws for the five years preceding renunciation. You may be subject to exit taxes.
• Consequences: You will no longer hold a U.S. passport, will not be able to vote in U.S. elections, and will require a visa to travel to the U.S..
• Statelessness: While the U.S. will not permit renunciation if it leaves you stateless, you must have citizenship in another country to avoid severe travel restrictions.

[Topper]

And you lose SSA...

[misskit]

^ One doesn’t have to be a US citizen to collect social security, so would one really automatically lose it?

[david44]

Could be worse , Racist Australia is so unattractive even women offered asylum prefer to turn to war torn misogyny of Iran, drunken okkers skin cancer and feral kids deprived of social media is enough to turn the convicts into seral onanists, spurts fanatics and of course racists.
I have been to second rate racists like Thais, vulgar Bulgars , Hillbillys, Finns and Persians, been Iran twice and 60 other odd nations and Oz takes the crown, of course you don't notice if your white, try being a non English speaking brown person....or of course the natives who were replaced by violent redcocats and the dregs of Britain's jails.

If Americans earn enough to fear the taxman there are plenty of nations that allow you to buy a passport .

Country	Minimum Investment/Donation	Conditions
St. Kitts & Nevis	$250,000 donation or $325,000 approved real estate	No presence requirement. Real estate: 7-year hold.
Antigua & Barbuda	$230,000 donation or $300,000 approved real estate	Presence requirement of 5 days in the first 5 years. Real estate: 5-year hold.
Dominica	$200,000 donation or $200,000 approved real estate	No presence requirement. Real estate: 5-year hold. No name changes within 5 years.
Grenada	$235,000 donation or $270,000 (share) or $350,000 (full title) approved real estate	No presence requirement. Real estate: 5-year hold.
Saint Lucia	$240,000 donation or $300,000 approved real estate	No presence requirement. Real estate: 5-year hold.
Vanuatu	$130,000 donation	No presence requirement.
Türkiye	$400,000 approved real estate or $500,000 bank deposit or investment	No presence requirement. Real estate: 3-year hold.
Egypt	$100,000 donation or $500,000 bank deposit (no interest)	No presence requirement. Bank deposit: 3-year hold.
Jordan	$1.4 million investment	No presence requirement.
North Macedonia	€200,000 approved investment fund or €400,000 direct investment	No presence requirement. Investment: 3-year hold.
Cambodia	$245,000 donation or $305,000 investment in approved projects	No presence requirement.

In addition, eight countries have recently announced new CBI programs: Argentina, Armenia, Botswana, Nauru, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, and the Solomon Islands. (It’s interesting to note that four of these are in Africa.)

NB somestates like Portugal and Israel have right of return for jews and Ireland for thise who have a provable Irish gransparent of all 2 sexes and even UK citizens blessed with the gift of the gab /sausages i.e born in Northern Ireland. This of course is an EU passport and many of all traditions now find it a handy doc