AP — The State Department has slashed by about 80 percent the fee for Americans to formally renounce their US citizenship. After years of legal battles with several groups representing Americans wanting to give up their citizenship, the department on Friday published a final rule in the Federal Register that reduces the cost from $2,350 to $450. The cost is now the same as it was when the State Department first started charging Americans to formally renounce their citizenship in 2010. Applicants must repeatedly confirm in multiple written and verbal attestations to a State Department consular officer that they understand the implications of the step before being allowed to take a formal oath of renunciation. The State Department did not provide numbers for the total number of Americans who have renounced their citizenship.

Source: Egypt Independent March 17, 2026 10:14 UTC