In the past several years, something unexpected has been happening: Americans are leaving. More and more are choosing to live abroad, driven by politics, cost of living, remote work opportunities, climate anxiety, or a desire for a different way of life. This once fringe idea is now becoming a quiet trend — and possibly the beginning of something much bigger.
Yet while immigration to the United States is widely studied, emigration from the United States is barely understood. There’s no centralized data, little institutional research, and few platforms dedicated to tracking the stories and statistics behind this evolving movement.
American Emigration Revue was created to fill that gap — by collecting and analyzing data, monitoring media narratives, and exploring the long-term impact of American emigration on both sides of the border. We aim to connect the dots and bring visibility to what could become one of the most defining demographic shifts of the 21st century.
We believe that American emigration is not just a personal decision — it’s a data point in a much larger narrative.
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Daniel Atz is an American–Luxembourg dual citizen and serial entrepreneur. His journey into citizenship and migration began in a deeply personal way — meeting long-lost Luxembourgish relatives on national television in Europe. That experience led him to recover his own Luxembourg citizenship and later launch LuxCitizenship, a company dedicated to helping others do the same. Since its founding, LuxCitizenship has helped over 2,000 Americans obtain dual citizenship in the European Union — and, in many cases, supported their journey to begin a new life abroad. But as the business grew, so did Daniel’s curiosity about the bigger picture. In 2018, he launched a long-term demographic study to better understand the Americans reclaiming Luxembourg nationality. What started as a small research project tracking 300 individuals evolved into a five-edition data series by 2023, encompassing thousands of dual citizens.
As the scope of the study expanded, the project began incorporating public data from Luxembourg’s government open data portal, creating a uniquely detailed view of Americans in their new national context — a perspective almost completely absent from traditional migration research. The study was later recognized by Luxembourg’s open data authority and featured in media such as Folha de S. Paulo, CNN Brasil, and others.
In 2024, Daniel read the New York Times exposé on Americans moving abroad. It confirmed a realization that had been building for years: this wasn’t just a niche curiosity anymore. A new migratory pattern was emerging — and it could reshape not just American lives, but the places where Americans go. With that, the idea for the American Emigration Revue was born — to expand the work that began in a single corner of Europe into a wider effort to document, analyze, and understand the evolving phenomenon of American emigration. Launched in March 2025, the Revue is both a platform and a call to pay attention. If current trends continue, American emigration won’t just be a trend — it could become a defining chapter of the American story
In the past several years, something unexpected has been happening: Americans are leaving. More and more are choosing to live abroad, driven by politics, cost of living, remote work opportunities, climate anxiety, or a desire for a different way of life. This once fringe idea is now becoming a quiet trend — and possibly the beginning of something much bigger.
Yet while immigration to the United States is widely studied, emigration from the United States is barely understood. There’s no centralized data, little institutional research, and few platforms dedicated to tracking the stories and statistics behind this evolving movement.
The American Emigration Revue was created to fill that gap — by collecting and analyzing data, monitoring media narratives, and exploring the long-term impact of American emigration on both sides of the border. We aim to connect the dots and bring visibility to what could become one of the most defining demographic shifts of the 21st century.
We believe that American emigration is not just a personal decision — it’s a data point in a much larger narrative.
Founder
Chief of Staff
Operations Manager
Daniel Atz is an American–Luxembourg dual citizen and serial entrepreneur. His journey into citizenship and migration began in a deeply personal way — meeting long-lost Luxembourgish relatives on national television in Europe. That experience led him to recover his own Luxembourg citizenship and later launch LuxCitizenship, a company dedicated to helping others do the same. Since its founding, LuxCitizenship has helped over 2,000 Americans obtain dual citizenship in the European Union — and, in many cases, supported their journey to begin a new life abroad. But as the business grew, so did Daniel’s curiosity about the bigger picture. In 2018, he launched a long-term demographic study to better understand the Americans reclaiming Luxembourg nationality. What started as a small research project tracking 300 individuals evolved into a five-edition data series by 2023, encompassing thousands of dual citizens.
As the scope of the study expanded, the project began incorporating public data from Luxembourg’s government open data portal, creating a uniquely detailed view of Americans in their new national context — a perspective almost completely absent from traditional migration research. The study was later recognized by Luxembourg’s open data authority and featured in media such as Folha de S. Paulo, CNN Brasil, and others.
In 2024, Daniel read the New York Times exposé on Americans moving abroad. It confirmed a realization that had been building for years: this wasn’t just a niche curiosity anymore. A new migratory pattern was emerging — and it could reshape not just American lives, but the places where Americans go. With that, the idea for the American Emigration Revue was born — to expand the work that began in a single corner of Europe into a wider effort to document, analyze, and understand the evolving phenomenon of American emigration. Launched in March 2025, the Revue is both a platform and a call to pay attention. If current trends continue, American emigration won’t just be a trend — it could become a defining chapter of the American story
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