American Emigration News
Sourced, dated coverage of US citizens abroad, where they move and why. Every figure traced to its government source.
Sourced, dated coverage of US citizens abroad, where they move and why. Every figure traced to its government source.
Italy's Constitutional Court ordered an Italian citizenship referral to the EU Court of Justice, suspending judgment on the 2025 descent restriction.
A Scottish employment tribunal ordered PizzaExpress to pay an American waiter £5,469 (about $7,100) after a coworker repeatedly told him to "go back to your country" and called him a "Yank." The tribunal did not rule that "Yank" is inherently racist. Instead, PizzaExpress admitted the remarks amounted to unlawful racial harassment under UK law.
American seismologist Youlin Chen has spent more than 600 days detained in China without trial on espionage charges that could bring a life sentence. His family has now gone public, warning that Chen's case highlights how Beijing's expanded national security laws can turn publicly available research into alleged state secrets, putting American academics and researchers at greater risk.
The Internal Revenue Service published 1,462 names on its latest quarterly list of U.S. citizenship renunciations for the first quarter of 2026. That's up 13.8% from the same quarter a year earlier and marks the second-highest quarterly total in the past year. The increase is notable because it occurred before the government lowered the fee to renounce U.S. citizenship.
American citizens received 80,424 first EU residence permits in 2024, up 1.9% from 78,911 in 2023 and the highest annual total in Eurostat's series going back to 2013. The increase came as overall EU permit issuance declined, making Americans one of the few nationality groups to record year-over-year growth.
