
Former US Citizens Have Been Denied ESTA Since June, Immigration Lawyers Report
Renunciants holding visa-waiver citizenships are being told to apply for visas instead. No public rule has been issued.

Renunciants holding visa-waiver citizenships are being told to apply for visas instead. No public rule has been issued.

Before the villa in the Algarve comes the apostille in Austin. Plan B Outbound explains why Americans should plan from home.

Fees stay below the court-stayed 2024 rates but land a month before the $800,000 minimum investment is set to rise.

Shah says the SEC never asked for files she described under oath before suing her in 2023. She wants the claim dropped and her fees paid.

Taxing returns rather than net worth, the surtax would reach back to January 1. Congress already overturned one DC tax law this year.

DHS projects US$13.05 billion a year in lower benefit payouts but says it cannot estimate how many green cards the test will deny.

More than 1,000 families in Liberty are adding the work that starts where immigration law stops, in Portugal and in Italy. The new website is available at www.libertylex.com

A Maryland judge enjoined Executive Order 14418 on September 2. Two days later, DHS put one of its four categories into the rulebook.

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

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.

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 1815 Convention, in practice, runs one way.” A 211-year-old treaty still gets British investors into America, but not Americans into Britain. Mona Shah on why the durable part of the US-UK relationship is law, not sentiment.

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.

A pause on immigrant visas, an adjustment-of-status crackdown, and a September grandfathering deadline are converging on EB-5 applicants.

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.