Months later, after receiving another warning from her bank, she decided to renounce her U.S. citizenship. But disruptions to consular services around the world have made it nearly impossible for some Americans to stop being American. As can renouncing citizenship: In 2014, the fee for renouncement rose 422 percent, to $2,350. Patrick, 51, an office worker who lives in Ghent, Belgium, said that he first visited the U.S. Embassy in Brussels to discuss his plans to renounce citizenship in September 2019. “They simply do not understand what an unbelievable, strange and impossible situation these people are in.”Aline said she would be joining a lawsuit to challenge the fee for renouncing citizenship.

Source: Washington Post October 27, 2020 14:02 UTC