This was “renouncing my US citizenship”. It’s been something that has been a long time coming. I was born there but within 5 months immigrated to Canada and received citizenship through my mother.
Ph.Demetri @PhDemetri
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I have a thing in a week. The thing is scary, and I’ll tweet about it a bunch after. But the thing involves lawyers (no litigating) and I swear to god the less I have to work with a lawyer the better.
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There was a lot that went into this decision, and I didn’t make it lightly. But it was right for me, and made the last decade of my life full of anxiety and needless struggle in some cases.
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My daughter was born while we were in grad school, so she has US citizenship. I wonder if she'll end up renouncing eventually, and I'm curious about non-tax-related reasons to do this.
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Biggest thing for me was crossing the border. Border patrol didn’t take too kindly to me trying to cross with a Canadian passport. An American passport — while valuable — is just not worth the hassle when all my life is in Canada.
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It's complicated. We've been in the US so long now that if we returned to Canada the taxman would still come after us. So we eventually relented, did the paperwork, and now eacj have two blue passports. Free options to move and all. It still think True North beckons one day...
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Yea, I was there 6 months as an infant. All I know is Canadian life.
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Replying to @PhDemetri @VincentAB @ryancbriggs
That makes you basically the mirror of my younger daughter. Three months in Toronto, the Ontario. Two years three months for her sister. So my gals ... are American-Canadians.

Mar 9, 2023 · 2:38 AM UTC

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Replying to @eddelbuettel @PhDemetri @VincentAB @ryancbriggs
The odd bit is that I feel your "separation". When I became Canadian, I failed to / did not know about a "hey let us know" requirement as I was about to acquire another citizenship. So Berlin decided that was bad, and I was done. So now I have a German accent but no passport.
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Which really truly badly sucks as the European Project is give-or-take the best thing that ever happened over there, and I am no longer part of it which is sad. Mais c'est la vie. Win some, loose some. (Also s/Ontario/Illinois/ above. My bad.)
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