Wednesday, April 29, 2026
‘I don’t want to be part of a dictatorship’: the Americans queueing up to renounce their citizenship
The renunciation experience varies. Sinclair said the US vice consul was “maybe a little snippy … there was an air of contempt. Like, ‘Oh you idiot, why are you doing this? Why would anyone renounce their US citizenship?’” Mary couldn’t get an appointment in her home city of Toronto so booked Halifax, Nova Scotia, and “did what they call a ‘vacation renunciation’”. She describes it as the purest anticlimax: “I was all set, I had my cute outfit on and all my lines memorised. I walked into this consulate that looks like the third floor of a department store, it didn’t look governmental at all.” Michael, 57, was similarly struck by the shabbiness of the consulate in Amsterdam – the noise, the chaos, the fact that nothing worked, “the feeling of instantly being back in America”...
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