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The US government has been deporting thousands of illegal immigrants. Such undocumented immigrants are being sent back to their countries at the expense of millions of US dollars. The current President Donald Trump is also speeding up the process of returning undocumented immigrants from 119 countries around the world.
If the government is returning undocumented immigrants, the number of people who renounce their citizenship to leave America spontaneously is not small. In the 16 years from 2009 to 2024, 48 thousand 16 people have renounced American citizenship. According to the data of the US Treasury Department, within a period of 16 years, the lowest number of 742 in 2009 and the highest number of 6,705 people have renounced American citizenship.
Last year 4 thousand 800 in 2024, 5 thousand in 2023, 2 thousand 816 in 2022, 2 thousand 426 in 2021, 2 thousand 71 in 2019, 3 thousand 974 in 2018, 5 thousand 132 in 2017 are mentioned in the data. Similarly, 5 thousand 409 in 2016, 4 thousand 279 in 2015, 3 thousand 415 in 2014, 3 thousand in 2013, 932 in 2012, 1 thousand 781 in 2011, and 1 thousand 534 in 2010 are on the list of those who renounced their citizenship, according to the Treasury Department.
Every three months of every year, NARA publishes the list of those who renounce their citizenship provided by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). European countries, Australia and Canada are the choices of most people to renounce their citizenship. There is a provision to give up US citizenship only after taking citizenship of another country.
Therefore, those who give up American citizenship will have left the country and become citizens of other countries . In order to renounce citizenship, according to the law of the United States, one has to pay US$ 2,350 after interviewing at the embassy in the country in which the citizenship is renounced, according to the website of the Office of the Federal Register (OFR).
Alistair Bambridge, who has studied citizenship, says that some Americans are also dissatisfied with the country's politics. Many people who have renounced their citizenship complain that they are unhappy with the current political environment in America, but another main reason for their decision is taxes. Bambridge claims that more and more people will give up their citizenship every year.
