The up-to-date database resides in Part 2 (link at the bottom of this page).
Above is a link to data we are compiling on Relinquishments and Renunciations — a work in progress. This corresponds with the Consulate Report Directory (in sticky post below), tracking individual experiences for each Consulate, along with a timeline chart.
Note: We are using numbers instead of blog names for this public posting so there will be no compromise of private information. Your facts will help give a snapshot of relinquishment and renunciation activity and where that occurs.
Please submit information in the comments here (or someone can contact you privately). Thanks for all your help on this.
COMMENTS ARE CLOSED FOR Relinquishment and Renunciation Data (as reported on Isaac Brock), Part 1.
Part 2 is now open for your comments. Thank you.
@Rose,
I understand and will try to remember to ask you again when some time has gone by. We would in no way identify you on the database or the Consulate Directory Report. Thanks again for sharing your experience with us. It’s so good to hear from someone in Australia. Do you know others taking action there or have you gone through this pretty much on your own? Best wishes and, again, congratulations!
*@calgary411
I was totally alone in going through this process and if it wasn’t for my discovering the website at renunciationguide.com I wouldn’t have been able to do it. What a godsend! The consulate here let slip that another person was renouncing the same time as me but I don’t personally know anyone here who has gone through it. That is why I decided to make a posting to perhaps help others living in the “land down under”.
@Rose,
You WILL help others where you are. Undoubtedly, there are people looking at this site from all over, feeling alone, seeking information in their OMG moments. I’m glad you found renunciationguide.com — good help there. It was one of the first things I found too and I never stopped reading until I got to the end. I don’t know who put that together but I thank them. When I found it, I thought it so professionally done and like I had struck gold for information I was thirsting for.
Glad to have you with us here!
I find it out that so many renunciants/relinquishers are being asked to show their birth certificates. I didn’t have to in Copenhagen and if they had asked me I would have had no idea where to find it. If you have a US passport then presumably, at some point, you’ve had to show someone a birth certificate, but that was probably at the time you received your first passport. I just wonder if it’s “legal” for the consulates to require this extra paperwork?
*I am not sure about today, but my father was never issued a birth certificate. He was born in Chicago in 1898 and found by a policeman walking his beat wrapped ina blanket on the porch at the front door of an orphanage. As a small baby he was turned over to a farm familiy in Michigan where he was raised and assumed their surname, but was never legally adopted. He died in 1964 after a long illness. He had never traveled outside of the US or had a passport, He had applied for Social Security disability benefits and in lieu of a birth certificate the Social Security Administration accepted a sworn afadavti of a member of the family which raised him who had known him since he was turned over to them by the orphanage to be raised. As I recall it was one of his “brothers” in that family who was considerably older than my father.
I don’t suppose it is common today, but not too many years ago it was not uncommon for persons births to never have been recorded so they had no birth certificate. My wife’s mother, who in 1970 was 78 years of age, was able to obtain a US passport to travel to visit us in Brazil where we were living at the time. For passport issuance without a birth certificate they accepted the affadavit of an elderly aunt who had known her since birth.She had to appear personally before the person accepting the passport application to tell the story of my wife’s mother’s birth as she rembered it, and they accepted it.
New identification regulations went into effect in Europe about 2009 2010 and similar cr_p went on there. At that time I decided to get a Swedish drivers license, which is preceded by a learners permit which must be preceded by an identity card. To get one, you need identification. Passport? US passport doesn’t meet EU standards. ok, what else? Your family member can vouch for you: They live in USA.Your employer can vouch for you: I’m not employed here. Ok, your landlord can vouch for you: I live in a house. Oh, then I guess we can’t help you. You can apply, but it likely won’t get approved and your application fee is non refundable.
Fortunately, after a few months they loosened up and also the staff became more friendly.
I keep saying it is harder to renounce one’s citizenship than to become president of the United States, where it is not required to show a valid birth certificate or passport.
and no identification is required to send $199 donations from anywhere and anyone to a president’s re-election campaign
@Petros – unless you’re Barak Obama of course.
*Will someone please tell me why my emails are not being responded to? This is the fourth one over the past few days.
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Thanks, Saddened!
I hope you will be able to relinquish soon and I am looking forward to congratulating you. It’s a pain to have to wait. One thing– they do seem to be speeding up the CLN turnaround time for Canada, so hopefully when you relinquish, they’ll be caught up and you’ll get it quickly, in a month like they’re doing with the rest of the world.
Hi Rose,
Thanks for your report! You’re the first one we’ve got from Australia and I’m glad to hear it went smoothly and quickly. I put your report in the directory under “Australia (unspecified consulate).”
Thanks again, Hazy and Shaggy Z,
I’ve put yours in directory today, too. As you probably gathered from the site, I was rather, er, distracted from duty, celebrating my newly-arrived CLN this weekend!
To all,
If you ever want to edit or delete your report, you can post that as a comment here or e-mail me, my address is in the last sentence of the original post on the Consulate Report Directory thread.
*I emailed the Toronto consulate after Pacifica received her CLN. I relinquished in December 2011. They emailed me back and said that they have a list of people that have been approved for their CLN and my name is on the list! They said I would be hearing from them shortly.
iamquincy,
Congratulations!! Follow-up’s, so far, have paid off. I’m glad you’re at the end of your long road to getting your CLN. Thanks for letting us know.
Great news iamquincy, and thanks for sharing it! I have a friend who went to Toronto for a relinquishment about three weeks after Pacifica did; she doesn’t have her CLN yet, but on the strength of your post I’ve contacted her and suggested that if it isn’t in her mailbox this week, she do as you did and call or email to find out if her name is on their approved list. They obviously are batching these CLNs, the CLNs are mailed from (and, I think, prepared in) the consulates not in Washington. Toronto probably has a rather large list to plow through if it came as a batch, and I don’t think any consulate is exactly staffed well enough to process the numbers they’re getting as quickly as we’d all like.
Good news for you, and one hopes good news for others as well.
*@iamquincy, Congratulation! Very Happy for You! Freedom at last!!
@Quincy,
Super! I know you’ve had a long wait. I’m really happy for you!
*As of this afternoon there are still no more appointments available at the Toronto consulate through their on-line appointment tool, either for the rest of this year or for next year.
But don’t panic, guys, they’ll probably be making January time slots available in December. They usually have slots available for about one or two months in advance. Not sure why January isn’t up now — maybe some end of the year thing? Thanks for letting us know, Anon-Anon.
*It could be just an end-0f-year problem, but maybe it has to do with upcoming personnel changes for the second term, since Secretary Clinton is leaving office. I keep wondering if they are rethinking the whole matter of processing relinquishments and renunciations, as it seems that they will have steady business in those for a long time.
*pacifica777, system overload, paperwork mountain at the Department of States and no internships to pick up the slack. Half of the staff renounced already, China won’t lend more money due to reporting requirements, the illegals went to work in Mexico and the aliens are not responding to the distress signals. 🙂
@SwissPinoy,
Love it — thanks for the comic relief! Or, do you have good information you’re passing along to us?
*calgary411, I’m an IT geek and I used my self-made time travel device to spend the weekend in the year 2013 in search of investment opportunities. But don’t tell this to the IRS, because then they’ll try to tax me on futuristic gains after issuing a forced renunciation reversal. Yikes!
*Thanks, Calgary, Schubert, Pacifica and Saddened. Have to say I was getting worried I would be the first relinquishment rejected when people that relinquished 4 months after me were getting their CLNs! Likely the list of approved individuals is very long and not in order of appearance at the consulate. Does seem like the consulate is preparing the CLNs like Schubert says. Hope your friend is on the list, too, Schubert. Let us know what she hears back.
It’s good to hear that some CLNs are trickling in. Contrary to what other Europeans have reported, I renounced 3 months ago and am still waiting for mine. Either I’ve simply had incredibly bad luck or the large volume of renunciants is now causing delays over here as well. Unfortunately, the consulate hasn’t responded to any of my inquiries either. The entire situation is agonizing for myself and my family, all the more so as I had expected to receive my CLN much earlier and now have no idea whatsoever when it might arrive.
Thanks to all those who contribute their experience, time and knowledge to this site.