State Department slashes fee to renounce US citizenship by 80% to $450

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

State Department slashes fee to renounce US citizenship by 80% to $450

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/state-department-slashes-fee-to-renounce-us-citizenship-by-80-to-450/ar-AA1YzEs9?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=c3eb52913395497aa720dedb7d5a8515&ei=98 🔗 [Link: msn.com/en-​us/news/us/state-​department-​slashes-​fee-​to-​renounce-​us-​citizenship-​by-​80-​to-​450/ar-​AA1YzEs9/]

MATTHEW LEE (13 March 2026)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has slashed by about 80% the fee for Americans to formally renounce their U.S. citizenship.

After years of legal battles with several groups representing Americans wanting to give up their citizenship, the department on Friday published a final rule in the Federal Register that reduces the cost from $2,350 to $450.

The new fee, which took effect on Friday, had been promised in 2023 but had never been implemented. The cost is now the same as it was when the State Department first started charging Americans to formally renounce their citizenship in 2010.

Renouncing U.S. citizenship can be an intensive and lengthy process. Applicants must repeatedly confirm in multiple written and verbal attestations to a State Department consular officer that they understand the implications of the step before being allowed to take a formal oath of renunciation. It must then be reviewed by the department.

[Lori Dee ✅]

Renouncing U.S. citizenship can be an intensive and lengthy process. Applicants must repeatedly confirm in multiple written and verbal attestations to a State Department consular officer that they understand the implications of the step before being allowed to take a formal oath of renunciation. It must then be reviewed by the department.

I think I would just leave, waving my middle finger. But I understand that some countries require renunciation before granting citizenship. I didn't realize there was a fee to be paid — typical bureaucracy.

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

Well, they had to prove they did succeed in lowering the price on something.

Love always -- Jessica Rose