Former U.S. president Donald Trump held overseas bank accounts while he was in office – in Ireland, the UK and China, between 2015 and 2017 – various media organizations have been reporting today, as details of Trump's personal and business finances continued to emerge, in the wake of Friday's release of his tax returns after a years-long legal battle.

In a ruling that has surprised many in the expatriate American community, a U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. has officially declared Tel Aviv-headquartered U.S. tax attorney Monte Silver and his company "lack constitutional standing to pursue their claims" – thus ending, at least for now, Silver's feisty effort to force the U.S. Treasury to take small overseas businesses owned by Americans into account in its enforcement of President Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.  

Many overseas Americans – even more, in percentage terms, than their homeland counterparts – don’t vote.  A common attitude among such expats is expressed by one thirtysomething New Yorker, who was raised abroad and now lives in London, who says, “New York doesn’t need my vote. I’m a Democrat, like everyone else there. If I did vote, the outcome would be exactly the same as if I didn’t.”  

Others think their ballots won’t be counted. Still others aren’t even aware that they are eligible to vote, especially if they’ve been away from the States for many years, or even grew up abroad.

At the same time as many of his fellow Canadian citizens are struggling with tax issues having to do with their dual American citizenships, and in some cases trying to give up their U.S. passports altogether, Neil Young has come forward to detail how he is fighting to become an American.