Spokespeople for organizations that represent so-called accidental Americans – long-time citizens of other countries whom the U.S. regards as U.S. expatriates and taxpayers, even though they themselves don't consider themselves to be U.S. citizens – were reeling on Thursday from the news that a court in the Netherlands has ruled that a Dutch bank may close the account of such an "accidental," who has refused to enter into the U.S. tax system.

Time magazine, one of the longest-established and best-known weekly magazines in the U.S., has become the latest mainstream media outlet to run a major article about America's so-called "accidental Americans," and their struggles to maintain bank accounts in the countries in which they live and are citizens of, as a result of the controversial U.S. law known as FATCA. 

The head of the German Presidency of the EU has written a strongly-worded letter to the head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service on the subject of the U.S. law known as FATCA, and what he calls "the continuing challenges EU residents with U.S. citizenship are encountering in connection with the application of the FATCA – Exchange of Information under  Intergovernmental Agreements (IGA) by the the EU Member States."

Bloomberg, the major global media organization based in New York, has once again published a strongly-worded opinion piece calling for action on behalf of America's expatriates that  it calls "A Letter From 9 Million U.S. Expats to Janet Yellen."

The Paris-based Association of Accidental Americans (AAA), along with 20 so-called accidental Americans of 10 different nationalities, have filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in Washington against the U.S. State Department today, in which they allege that the US$2,350 fee the U.S. currently charges those wishing to renounce their American citizenship violates the U.S. Constitution and international law.

Two of the Netherlands' largest banks, ABN AMRO and Rabobank, are also prepared to close the bank accounts of "unintentional Americans" if these individuals "do not cooperate with the U.S. requirements" that they provide tax information numbers, such as a Social Security number, or evidence that they have entered into the U.S. system for relinquishing their citizenships, according to a report published on Friday on the news website NRC.nl.

An advice columnist for the London Times newspaper's Money section has informed a retired U.K. Army officer who wrote to the paper that his 44-year-old daughter, born in Colorado when he was on a two-year posting there, is an "accidental American", who will have to pay thousands of dollars to sort out her situation with the U.S. tax authorities, whether she decides to retain her U.S. citizenship or renounce it.

A decision is expected within the next four weeks in a case involving a retired Dutch airline pilot who has gone to court to keep his Dutch bank account, rather than give in to the bank's demands, and enter the U.S. tax identification system. 

Dutch lawmakers said on Tuesday that they plan to join forces with their French counterparts in asking the EU Commission to once again raise with the U.S. the issue of the problems some of their citizens are having with their financial accounts, as a result of the U.S. tax evasion-prevention law known as FATCA.

With two months to go until the end of his term, President Trump is considering an executive action that would end the current U.S. policy of conferring American citizenship on all babies born in the U.S., according to a Washington media report, which cited as its source a top presidential aide.