heard the same thing in 2015 http://www.allgov.com/news/us-and-the-world/record-number-of-americans-giving-up-citizenship-150510?news=856444 http://www.allgov.

heard the same thing in 2015 http://www.allgov.com/news/us-and-the-world/record-number-of-americans-giving-up-citizenship-150510?news=856444 http://www.allgov.com/news/us-and-the-world/record-number-of... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-07/americans-abroad-top-quarterly-record-for-giving-up-citizenship https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-07/americans... another one from 2017 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/10/a-potentially-historic-number-of-people-are-giving-up-their-u-s-citizenship/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/10... > compared to the prior year why only compare it to previous year? Previous year was the lowest. ~450 compared to ~3500 in 2014. Alternate headline from last year: CNN: Record number of americans not giving up citizenship .A fall of 600% compared to Obama presidency.