Daniel Atz
Daniel Atz is Founder and Editor in Chief of American Emigration Revue. A dual citizen of the United States and Luxembourg, he founded LuxCitizenship in 2016, which has helped more than 3,000 Americans obtain dual citizenship. His demographic research on Americans reclaiming Luxembourg nationality has been covered by CNN, Folha de S. Paulo, and RTL Luxembourg.
Articles by Daniel Atz
Five CARICOM states operate citizenship-by-investment programs whose grants include free movement across the region. U.S. nationals are plausibly the largest single applicant group, yet they appear in neither set of records: not in destination-country resident tallies, not in U.S. emigration data.
Eurostat is the only destination-country statistical system that publishes harmonized, country-disaggregated migration data on U.S. nationals. The decade ending in 2025 reveals four overlapping American stories in Europe that pull in different directions.
Gulf Cooperation Council states track foreign nationals by nationality for visa management and security purposes but publish almost none of the resulting data. The U.S. resident population across the GCC, plausibly between 50,000 and 80,000 people, represents the clearest example of administrative capacity that does not translate into public disclosure.
A report published by PropertyWire on June 25 highlights a surge in Americans applying for Greek residency, with a 49% increase in the first half of 2025 alone.
African Americans moving to Ghana have a new high-profile face. On Jan. 28, Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa announced his ministry had approved a Ghanaian passport for IShowSpeed, the American YouTuber whose “Speed Does Africa” tour had spanned 20 countries and drawn tens of millions of livestream viewers. Born Darren Jason Watkins Jr. in Cincinnati, […]
The State Department has reduced the cost of US citizenship renunciation from $2,350 to $450. A final rule published in the Federal Register on March 13, 2026 makes the change effective approximately April 12, 2026. The fee returns to where it stood between 2010 and 2014, before a surge in renunciation requests led the government […]
Mexican American dual citizenship is on the rise. More than 125,000 people obtained Mexican nationality through consulates in the United States in 2025, a 153% increase over 2024 and more than the combined total of the three preceding years, according to Mexico’s Secretariat of Foreign Affairs. The vast majority are U.S. citizens or long-term residents […]
As De Beers restructures and diamond markets falter, a potential Botswana Citizenship by Investment program is making an audacious pivot; and U.S. investors are paying attention When Botswana and Arton Capital announced their citizenship-by-investment partnership at the UN General Assembly in September 2025, it might have seemed like just another entry in the crowded global […]
Black Americans moving to Ghana have reshaped Accra’s housing market, citizenship pipeline and coastal land politics over the past six years, and the friction between returnees and locals is now visible in court filings, rent rolls and citizenship statistics. About 1,500 Black Americans have obtained residency in Ghana since 2019, the Richmond Free Press reported […]
As someone who works every day with Americans reclaiming Luxembourgish citizenship, the instinct is to bring context and calibration to this debate rather than alarm. Senator Bernie Moreno’s Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025 is a serious and far‑reaching proposal, but it is one bill at an early stage in a long legislative process, and it […]
LGBTQ+ Americans are pursuing EU citizenship and long-term relocation to Europe in growing numbers, with Italian citizenship by descent, the Irish Foreign Births Register, German naturalization, and Spanish citizenship among the most commonly pursued routes, according to Citizenship.EU.