From: jock@soccer.com   
      
   On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 04:43:57 +0000 (UTC), John Levine    
   wrote:   
      
   >>>The US does not recognize renunciation of US nationality unless it is   
   >>>done freely in front of a US consular official (or due to voluntary   
   >>>service in another nation's armed forces).  In particular, we reject any   
   >>>renunciation done as a condition of gaining another nationality, e.g. as   
   >>>part of an oath of citizenship.   
   >>   
   >>I think that's an income tax thing.   
   >   
   >No, it was Afroyim v. Rusk, a Supreme Court decision in 1967, which reversed   
   >several other decisions going back to 1898 and said the only way to lose US   
   >citizenship is to voluntarily renounce it.   
   >   
   >Since then the Congress has indeed passed a bunch of laws that make it   
   >hard to renounce your citizenship, and demand large payments to   
   >compensate for all the taxes a nonresident would presumably stop   
   >paying.   
      
      
   Tell that to the large numbers of 'former' Americans who have lived in   
   Canada for decades, and are now being hounded to fess up on their   
   earnings/file returns after the IRS was ordered to grab moneys from   
   abroad.   
      
   The simplest way to get out of it is to appear at a consulate and   
   renounce...   
      
      
      
   That item above summarises fairly well the hornet's nest.  This   
   follopwing is a more recent reminder:   
      
      
      
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