Concerns over a new Trump administration policy that would make it slightly more difficult for Americans serving abroad with the U.S. military to pass their U.S. citizenship on to their children if the children happened to be born overseas have prompted three Democratic members of the House to introduce legislation that would address this.
A survey of more than 20,000 expats of various nationalities has found that the U.S. ranks surprisingly low – in 47th place out of 64 – as a country in which to be a resident foreigner.
As this and other media organizations have been reporting in recent months, Europe's banks are becoming increasingly aware of an approaching Dec. 31 deadline, after which they will be obliged to comply with an element of the 2010 U.S. law known as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) that obliges them to give the U.S. the "Tax Information Number" of all of their American account-holders...
One of the U.K.'s better-known international property experts has posted an animated video on YouTube that aims to help people avoid "legal pitfalls and bad property investments when buying an overseas property".
In the latest development in what is becoming a fast-moving international story concerning the bank accounts of tens of thousands of "accidental Americans" living outside of the U.S., it has emerged that the Dutch Banking Association has posted an animated video on the home page of its website in which it warns such clients of the need to get their U.S. Social Security numbers – if they don’t wish to lose their Dutch bank accounts.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced that it plans to close all but seven of its 23 overseas offices, including those in London, Frankfurt, Rome and Bangkok.
This represents a change from its earlier plan, announced in March, that it would close all 23 of the outposts.
The U.S. government has announced plans to make it harder for the children of some U.S. government employees who are stationed abroad to automatically become U.S. citizens.
In the early years of this century, a number of major media exposés reported how Homeland Americans, as well as rich people from other developed and developing countries, were making...
Mar-18-2023
