Never-resident voters, Americans born abroad who never lived in a US state, face RNC suits in eight states. Michigan and North Carolina split.
The Taxpayer Assistance and Service Act cleared Senate Finance 26-1 with three provisions for Americans abroad. The bill as introduced in February had five.
The EU Entry/Exit System exempts Americans holding residence permits, but Irish and Cypriot permits still trigger biometric registration at Schengen borders.
A growing number of Americans are returning home after living abroad, prompting financial advisers to dub them "boomerangs." But despite the trend, no US agency tracks how many citizens move back.
A Treasury watchdog report released April 8, 2026 found the IRS is not converting FATCA data on high-balance nonfilers into enforcement cases, despite the law's original mandate to target offshore tax evasion. The compliance burden created by FATCA's reporting requirements continues to fall disproportionately on ordinary Americans living abroad, including those seeking basic banking access.
Republican National Committee lawsuits challenging overseas voting laws are active in Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Virginia, and Colorado as of late June 2026, targeting state statutes that extend voting rights to certain Americans abroad ahead of the 2026 midterms. Legal challenges and practical barriers are both shaping overseas voter participation, though they operate on separate tracks.
The Residence-Based Taxation for Americans Abroad Act, first introduced by Rep. Darin LaHood (R-Ill.) as H.R. 10468 in December 2024, expired with the 118th Congress before advancing. Though 2026 was widely anticipated as a potential breakthrough year for the reform, legislation has not yet moved in the current Congress.
Canada's immigration authority began suspending approved citizenship-by-descent certificates on June 13, 2026, requiring recipients to return them for re-examination. The move, communicated by email rather than formal regulation, caught immigration lawyers off guard and threatens Americans who had secured the status as a pathway to living abroad.
The count of US citizens in Czechia hit 10,701 on Jan. 1, 2025, a 49% rise in five years, with Prague and a one-year trade-license route doing most of the pulling.
Major U.S. brokerages have restricted or closed accounts held by clients with foreign addresses, citing the compliance cost of serving small numbers of non-resident customers across overlapping regulatory regimes. The account closures have become one of the least-visible financial costs of American emigration.
A survey of American Citizens Abroad members conducted in October 2025 found 57% support extending Medicare to cover overseas medical services, with 34% backing full reimbursement and 23% partial. AudienceNet and NP Agency conducted the poll with 833 U.S. citizens living overseas; results were published May 19, 2026.
Latin America has long offered Americans the most accessible second-passport landscape in the world, with Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Panama, Costa Rica, and most neighboring countries permitting dual citizenship without renunciation. The region accounts for the bulk of U.S.-citizen naturalizations abroad each year, including more than 125,000 Mexican-American dual citizenships granted in 2025 alone.
From sole proprietors to corporations, the way Americans abroad set up their businesses can dramatically reshape their tax bill, reporting load, and personal risk exposure. Running a business as a U.S. citizen overseas opens doors to new markets and international clients, but it also locks you into one of the world’s most complex tax systems. […]
An article published on December 8, 2025 by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian in The New Yorker highlights a quiet but growing exodus of Americans who are no longer content to joke about leaving the United States. They are actively doing the paperwork, booking the flights, and starting over abroad. Their stories trace a reversal of an […]
