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I'm almost certain this is mainly much wealthier people. I would say it's most likely people who don't have strong ties to America like people born in the US t

• _delirium 11y ago
  There could be some of those, but at least in my circles, the people falling in that category are interested in keeping their U.S. citizenship to keep a future employment door open. Especially in tech, the possibility of being able to work in Silicon Valley (or start a business there) without dealing with H1B sponsorship has some value, even if you have no immediate plans to exercise it. I do know a few Denmark-U.S. dual citizens (by birth, never lived in the U.S.) who renounced their U.S. citizenship, but that was because of Danish rather than American laws. Until September 2015, Denmark had a public policy against dual citizenship, which among other things required children who were born as dual citizens to choose one when they turned 21, and renounce the other one. Since that requirement was just abolished, I would guess renunciations of U.S. (and Canadian) citizenship by Danes are now going to drop.