
Americans Are Renouncing Citizenship at the Highest Sustained Rate on Record
The IRS’s Q2 2026 expatriation list is the fifth-largest ever published, putting the year on track to challenge 2020’s record of 6,707 names.

The IRS’s Q2 2026 expatriation list is the fifth-largest ever published, putting the year on track to challenge 2020’s record of 6,707 names.

Access to Information releases suggest IRCC weighs Start-Up Visa applicants as a group, and that Commitment Certificates lock in early

The freeze covered ten CBI jurisdictions. Lesperance expects Washington’s next restriction to survive the courts.

Five weeks after the Supreme Court shut the wide door, the new orders go after families who bought their way through it.

The regulation on the books sets a floor of US$1,000 and no ceiling, so State may need no new rulemaking to reach six figures.

Seized equipment could churn out Canadian, French, Swiss, Czech, and Italian passports. No federal agency appears in the SQ’s account.

The 2022 rulebook constraining officers is gone; case-by-case judgment over benefit use returns, and investors are the one group untouched.

The state gained 28,000 millionaires and still lost billions in potential tax revenue, a paradox now at the center of one of America’s fiercest tax debates.

The 6-3 ruling shuts an executive route to ending jus soli, though a concurrence leaves a statutory question open for Congress.

The 358-page proposal locks in investor wins on capital timing and codifies an enforcement regime for regional centers.

Ottawa issued 4,075 descent certificates since December; but now suspending an undisclosed number over documentation concerns.

Most coverage focuses on undocumented immigrants; the proposal would also flag Americans with second passports.

The agency says adjustment of status is now “extraordinary relief,” not a routine pathway; a vague “economic benefit” exemption leaves investor visa holders in limbo.

About 2,700 passport holders owing US$100,000 or more are first in line; a much wider sweep covering arrears above US$2,500 will follow.

Six billionaires fled before the January 1 cutoff; opponents have spent US$80 million on counter-measures. The ballot fight is just beginning.

EB-5 minimum investments are set to rise by roughly $100,000-$150,000 on January 1, 2027, and it’s written directly into the statute.

Lutnick tells House subcommittee the program he projected would raise US$1 trillion has cleared a single applicant since December.

The draft executive order would require passports from bank customers; advisors warn millions of Americans lack the documents to comply.

Regional Center filings surged 38% year-on-year; direct petitions remain marginal with a 58% denial rate.

A five-year wait, a clean file, and a court ruling that says none of it matters if the incubator falls.