John Richardson - Counsellor for US persons abroad
@ExpatriationLaw
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Expatriation - #FATCA Letter - CRS - CFC - PFIC - @CitizenshipTax - US Citizenship Renunciation - @JustRenounce - Green Card Abandonment - @GreenCardTax
Toronto, Canada
Joined April 2012
Q. Why are people getting rid of their US citizenship? A. It's because of the "10 Commandments of U.S. Citizenship" in a #FATCA and #FBAR world by John Richardson
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Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries. @DrewHinshaw + @JoeWSJ fail to mention problems of @citizenshiptax + #FATCA. https://t.co/gzEIWQOpOG
wsj.com
More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.
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Break free from boundaries and embrace your roots while exploring the world. Dual citizenship empowers you to belong fully, honor your identity, and connect across nations without limits. Sign the petition & support us - https://t.co/clsGQTxeta
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Dutch gov still want to tax unrealized gains. It ain't over until it's over They're considering: - slightly lower tax rate than 36% - exception for startups younger than 5 years and their employees - loss carry back
NETHERLANDS VOTERS DEFEAT UNREALIZED GAINS TAX Dutch Finance Minister Eelco Heinen says he will amend the proposed Box 3 wealth tax law. “I think something simply went wrong here, and the current law needs to be amended.” Via @Bart_Mol
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Opinion: Canada’s housing market has frayed our social fabric. How did this happen?
theglobeandmail.com
Our housing crisis is the inevitable outcome of a system that places profits ahead of people
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Last year was the first time since 1935 that more people left America than moved in — and many are US citizens Some wild stats from 2025: • Americans moving to Ireland nearly doubled • More Americans moved to Germany than vice versa • 50,000 US-born Mexican-Americans left
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Trump’s America is losing a wave of nurses as Canada reels them in. https://t.co/UmoIiwuMAm
thedailybeast.com
Trump’s America is losing a wave of nurses as Canada reels them in.
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Americans are leaving the U.S. in record numbers, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries. https://t.co/nBzqdRnqHb
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For the first time since the 1930s, more people left the US than entered it According to the WSJ, the situation has not been observed since the Great Depression - the publication notes that for some Americans, the "new American dream" now lies in living outside the country.
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The number of US nationals applying for British citizenship hit an all-time high in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House
bloomberg.com
The number of US nationals applying for British citizenship hit an all-time high in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House.
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WSJ: “.. America’s own citizens are leaving in record numbers, replanting themselves and their families in lands they find more affordable and safe.” @WSJ #ByeAmerica
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The new American dream, for some of its citizens, is to no longer live there. In nearly all of the European Union’s 27 member states, the number of Americans arriving to live and work is at a record and rising. Even Albania is now flooded with American migrants. A Gallup poll
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More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.
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Great read and definitely have been seeing this trend but to devote this many words to the subject without mentioning FBAR or FATCA tells you it's not the whole picture.
Americans are leaving the U.S. in record numbers, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries
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UK citizenship applications hit a record high at the end of 2025, with a particularly sharp rise in applications from US nationals, amid an increasingly febrile political climate in America under the Trump administration. https://t.co/ZnmG5O60zJ
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"Do we have enough to retire?" "Yes." "Are you sure?" "You have $1.5M, a paid off house, and $7,800/month coming in from Social Security and pension. You have enough." "But what if the market crashes?" "We've already planned for that." "What if we need long term care?"
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first confirmed net negative migration in the united states since 1935...and it’s not all deportations. americans are leaving in record numbers.
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Common profile: The elderly naturalization applicant who took a 6+ month trip abroad. Presumption of broken continuous residence. Here’s how we deal with it. 👇
How Elderly Green Card Holders Can Address the "Continuous Residence" Naturalization Problem https://t.co/yqzH1l7G22
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🚨 BREAKING: Democrats are erupting in a PANIC after learning President Trump could soon mandate that banks verify CITIZENSHIP of their customers "This would apply to *EXISTING* customers." 🔥 We should NOT allow illegal aliens to bank in America! DO IT. https://t.co/BKCc3mFNee
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#CitizenshipMatters! The Nazi regime took their citizenship because they were Jewish. Today some of their descendents are reclaiming German citizenship https://t.co/QRg8kArNrl
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CC: @ExpatriationLaw
Americans are leaving America—and the exodus shows no sign of stopping https://t.co/XGElgQ19Pu via @WSJ
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Warren Buffett: "I would ask anybody to challenge me on whether being kind can hurt them in any way — and whether the net happiness of the world wouldn't be better if every morning they said to themselves, 'I'll have things that are good and bad that happen to me today, but I can
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