Dear seppos,
Australia proposes a cultural exchange whereby we will happily invite your progressive well adjusted not-stupid people in exchange for your accepting our fuckwits on a 1 for 1 basis.
Sadly there are way more of you than us, so if we send you our most fucked 10%, that's only 3m of you.
However, Gina Rinehart, Rupert Murdoch, and Clive Palmer are each worth 1m in exchange if you can seduce them to renounce their Australian citizenship.
Deal if it's retroactive because Murdoch already had to give up citizenship for control of foreign media type reasons.
Now that we have a credit for 1m refugees...
send them pauline she'd do numbers over there.
I had to look up what seppo means and that's fucking hilarious
and so the table has turned
Mate, murdoch already is 'american', thats how he owns Fox.
yeah someone else already said that. well done.
When the opportunity to move to Oz with a pathway to citizenship came up, I had to jump at it. I don’t want to raise a sprog in that environment. Ngl, I was in a privileged place to facilitate moving in the first place, but it wasn’t enough to stay in hopes of a better future there. Fully planning to renounce after gaining citizenship.
Wishing you all works out well. It still must hurt a bit.
Cheers, mate. I appreciate it. It’s definitely a bit bittersweet. Being no contact with less than great family helped, but leaving behind a life built and cultivated over the course of 4 decades cut pretty close to the bone.
Not sure I understand the point here. Banks in Europe ask about the citizenship and you're free to say No and there will be no issue opening an account. Assuming you have another passport, which everyone renouncing their citizenship must have anyway to not end up stateless.
The tax obligation can be ignored as well, I know plenty Americans abroad who haven't filed in years but continue to vote from abroad. If needed you can make up with the IRS, but once the citizenship is gone, it's gone.
The only reasonable explanation I see is the guy working a government job where the US passport could be considered a security concern. But this small minority should not lead to queues.
Most banks will report your account to the US regardless.
If the banks don't know their customer is US citizen I doubt they report anything. If you have evidence of e.g. German banks sending their customer data to the US you'd have a big story on your hands.
Hundreds of them!
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