The American Expat Financial News Journal, like many media organizations, often hears from readers who are at a loss as to whom else they can turn to, having exhausted what they believe to be all the avenues open to them to resolve their problems...

A reader asks: ‘How do I navigate the shoals of being between U.S. and French citizenship, without having to put all my assets into cash and sticking them under my mattress for a few years?’

While some expatriate Americans have been receiving and depositing or cashing their U.S. Economic Impact Payments without a problem, others continue to struggle. Fewer non-U.S. banks are willing to handle checks, while the IRS is still not sending money to expats’ overseas bank accounts...

One of those stories quietly running in the background of the Covid-19 pandemic has been that of the American expats who have struggled to obtain the so-called CARES Act stimulus payments they're supposed to be receiving – even as people who aren't U.S. citizens, and therefore shouldn't be receiving them, have been.

One such person is a former American whom we'll call Franz, who lives in Switzerland, and who renounced his U.S. citizenship in 2019...but received a check anyway...

In the latest in our series of ‘A Reader Asks’ questions, a 30-something American expatriate who has been living in London for most of her life says she is really keen to vote in the forthcoming election – but she’s wary, as she’s heard that she might attract unwanted attention from the IRS if she does...

A reader asks: ‘How do I navigate the shoals of being between U.S. and French citizenship, without having to put all my assets into cash and sticking them under my mattress for a few years?’