Originally Posted by
GUWonder
An interesting byproduct of this kind of rip-off fee structure is that a growing proportion of US citizens abroad may choose to not pursue US documentation of their foreign-born children in such a way as to burden their children with potential US extraterritorial claims against them. That would not suit a UST interested in maximizing long-term revenue sources.
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Also, there are those who pay once and renounce their US citizenship rather than be ripped off time and time again. Their numbers are growing.