In order to be able to do business in the USA, foreign banks have to agree to report on US citizen accounts and their holdings (in clear violation of privacy laws in the country where I currently reside, but moot since I also have to report this as a US citizen). While the IRS might not be able to do much to an individual directly, they can use their leverage to do quite a lot to an American citizen’s bank accounts anywhere in the world, as well as prevent travel to / arrest upon arrival in the USA.
Good on you for getting out while the gettin’ was good. Are there high barriers to your kids obtaining citizenship in a European country, so they can simply choose to omit any mention of their connection to the U.S.A. when initiating any employment/banking relationships?
When starting a new job or opening a new bank account in Europe you will have to present a document to prove your identity, either a passport or an identity card. Both will clearly display where you were born. You can’t omit or hide being born in the USA. You can only bring documentary proof that you severed this connection by renouncing the US citizenship, otherwise you will be in trouble. Your employer can fire you immediately, your bank can cancel your account with no previous notice.
Or admit it candidly, and see where that leads you. Post 345 shows some possibilties but there are more, I am sure. (it is 344 in my computer, it seems my thread counts one post less. Perhaps someone I have set on ignore? Whatever. My message stands: don’t be naive.)
Thanks.
The second half of your question was addressed above (correctly: short version, do not fuck with this stuff), so re the first half: My kids have an inside track to citizenship here. After we relocated, we had them in private schools to give them a soft landing while they learned the languages, then moved them to local public schools. The rule here is, any foreign kid who graduates from the local school system after having spent seven or more years in it automatically wins citizenship. So it’s a high bar if your parents keep you in the expat bubble, but a very low bar if your parents make an effort to assimilate.
Also thanks. Ignorance fought. Take the rest of the day off.
Today on The President’s Brain Is Missing; Mad King Donald emerges from his Fortress of Solitude to attend a Klan rally.
We’ll, the Alzheimer’s is hot tonight!
“Under the China policy every child can get 37 pencils”
(Note: When Michael Cohen first accused Trump of calling African countries “shitholes”, he denied it and claimed he was “the least racist person you will ever meet”)
“Homeschooling, getting more and more, it’s happening”
(Do YOU remember, Donald?)
“Let’s go to batteries where we have to go to the Congo and get it from China”
I feel increasingly confident in saying that this decaying sack of potatoes is NOT going to be able to make himself a dictator.
Even on the East Coast it’s still Dec 9th. What is going on here???
Quite possibly UTC
You realize, of course, for the vast majority of native US citizens, this is simply impossible.
Is that before or after we go to the quarry and throw stuff down there?
Not something I could even consider given my life situation.
I’ll die here in the chaos.
Are you cosplaying the felon with the first word? 
Depending on the circles in which one finds oneself, that very likely may be true. And it’s especially true with a lot of his supporters.
Sadly, it’s not he who has already made him one. Now, being an effective dictator, or even a benevolent dictator, is quite a different story.
No surprise here. Trump peace prize creator is unethical.
That’s a mulligan, isn’t it?
Basically, eat less. Or is it eat cake?
The war on education claims yet another group of victims.
Let’s face it. The felon’s war on education, war on the environment, war on veterans, war on health, war on whatever strikes him at the moment all add up to one thing: a war on America and Americans.
Yet another fool in the felon’s pool doesn’t understand the constitution.
And her rationale, her basis, for this assertion about Mayor-elect Mamdani?
Zilch.
The felon finds himself in the Cabinet Room.
And what was it that woke up Rip van Simple?
Of course the idea of tricking people with “creative accounting” got him awake and ready to create yet another disaster.
Just my luck, I insult someone’s cognitive abilities with a typo as the leadoff.
And another thing - I’m not senile. Please don’t put in the newspaper that I’m senile
This is the clusterfuck that just keeps on clusterfucking ad infinitum. Fuck.
Y’know, I kinda miss the Biden, Obama, even Bush Junior days. Their Tweets were rare, and when they did tweet anything, it was more along the lines of, “Happy Fourth of July, everybody! Hope you have a great day celebrating!” Just nice messages that nobody could take offense to.
The many daily posts from Trump, dealing with such subjects as they do, don’t reveal him to be presidential material, or a statesman, or a diplomat.
Somewhat tounge in cheek, I am lucky to be eligible for mine, purely due to geography and colonialism.