Innocente lands the first punch again: the latest “name-and-shame list” has been placed on public inspection for printing in tomorrow’s Federal Register. You can view it here. It is, of course, nearly two weeks past the October 30th deadline for the list to be printed, but perhaps it’s because the list compiler is still getting used to her new role: Ann V. Gaudelli has moved on to bigger and better things, and the naming & shaming is now the responsibility of Dorothy A. Harbison.
The list contains 560 names, down from 1,130 last quarter. However, it remains anyone’s guess what the real number of people giving up citizenship might be. The government shutdown will likely have affected the speed at which the State Department processes Certificates of Loss of Nationality and forwards them to the IRS, just as it also caused a slowdown in the FBI’s additions to NICS in all categories (about which I will post sometime later this week).
On a closely related topic, the U.S. government is also lowballing its latest estimate of how many people file Form I-407 to give up their U.S. green cards. In a Federal Register notice in late September, USCIS projected that only 9,371 people will file Form I-407 in 2014. However, according to statistics which Shadow Raider obtained from them through an FOIA request, the average annual number of green card abandonments by Form I-407 in the past decade was 15,354 — see our earlier post about those statistics. (And of course, this number does not include people who let their green cards expire without formally abandoning them.)
Furthermore, out of five public figures known to have given up U.S. citizenship between March and June 2013, only one appeared on the list: Sharon Roulstone, a candidate for public office in the Cayman Islands. Taiwanese basketball player Quincy Davis, René González of the “Cuban Five“, Pakistani politician Fauzia Kasuri, and Hong Kong banker Marshall Nicholson failed to have their names printed.
Among earlier relinquishments, Turks & Caicos Islands Deputy Premier Akierra Missick showed up almost a year late, finally putting to rest any claims that she had faked her renunciation. However, other ex-citizens of 2012 vintage such as Japanese literature professor Donald Keene and Zurich mayor Corine Mauch still have not appeared. In total, out of the 61 public figures with Wikipedia entries who were reported in the media to have given up U.S. citizenship since 2006, 25 have never had their names printed in the Federal Register, contrasting sharply with only two or three missing names in the list’s first decade from 1996 to 2005.
Huff&Puff is paid for by the Demonicrits. The finance rags are of course financed by the raggie financers. Half of the commenters are drunk, the other half should have been.
I don’t live “abroad”; and I don’t read H.P. Does anyone remember H.R. Puff n’ Stuff? Loved it as a kid, but I can well do without it now.
FWIW while the State Department claims 560 expatriations in all categories (renunciation plus relinquishment) for all of Q3, the FBI added 302 renunciants to NICS in October alone.
what’s the source of the NICS in October? Link?
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics/reports/active-records-in-the-nics-index-100313.pdf
ok, it looks like the aggregate. I’ve done some clicking, I cannot find the aggregate from the previous month to verify the number to others.
At the end of September, was 23,255.
It’s tricky to keep track of. They overlay the monthly totals on the previous URL, so you need to download the monthly files every month before they disappear.
The Federal Register “honor roll” expatriation list for 4Q 2013 is available. It contains approximately 636 names if we include one that is listed as last name “Switzerland” and a street address for the first name. The list also includes Corine Mauch, mayor of Zurich, who had the misfortune to be born in Iowa while her father was a student:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2014-02672.pdf
Including the approx. 636 expatriations for 4Q 2013, a total of 3,005 US citizens expatriated in 2013 per the Federal Register.
@Innocente, congratulations on being first to find the new list. The inclusion of the surname “Switzerland” and the street address as first name reminds me of an earlier list in which I discovered an entry with surname “Vice Consul”. It shows that the sloppy work continues in preparing the list.
Also, a person I know who renounced over a year ago has still not appeared on any of the quarterly lists, nor have I, an old-time relinquisher. So the mystery of the criteria for publication of names continues.
Finally, the request submitted to Data.gov almost a year ago for reports of the number of CLNs approved by the Department of State has still not been acted on. See https://explore.data.gov/nominate/2412
FBI’s NICS shows Increase from 20,654 to 23,807 or total of 3,153 for Section 5 renunciations for 2013. This of course doesn’t include Section 1-4 relinquishment and green card surrenders.
Once again, I am not on it. Renounced 1st quarter 2013.
Son is not on the list renounced Dec.2013
@AnonAnon: Thanks. The expatriation list seems to be made available on Fridays so thought to check the Federal Register pre-publication site today.
Aside from Corine Mauch, Zurich’s mayor, a notable name is Quincy Davis III, a basketball player in Taiwan:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Davis_%28basketball%29
There is also a young world-class cricket player, Mohan D’Souza, born in Minnesota, who plays in Singapore:
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/579491.html
@Numbersguy: It would be great to know how names are selected for inclusion in this list. Without considering greencard abandoners, it is likely understated by a factor of at least two (I suspect more). As I recall, Shadow Raider has an outstanding FOIA request open on this topic. Given the lack of transparency in the Obama administration, we may have to wait for a new administration to get better data.
The name “Not Vital” also appeared to be an error but is the name of a Swiss-American artist born in Sent, Graubünden. As a point of interest, his birthplace is Räto-Romanisch speaking, which is similar to Latin, and recognized as the fourth language of little Switzerland:
http://ropac.net/artist/not-vital
I’m not on this list either.
I sent an email to “Switzerland” to let them know that they have been listed and where, if they are interested.
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Note: not an endorsement of the information below or those presenting. But interesting that the subject came up in a US panel discussion.
http://youtu.be/w6evxu5I32M
‘USDPITI 2013:Record Renunciation of U.S. Citizenships; Tax Consequences, Life Changes & Passports ‘ Nov 13, 2013
from Marketing dept of a US Law firm Procopio
FWIW; panel discussion by US tax law professionals, touches on expatriation rate, upward trend, their speculations as to reasons, FATCA, etc.
Thanks for this, badger. I’m listening as I’m doing something else. Actually quite interesting — maybe listening will cause even more confusion! There is discussion also on green cards and statute of limitations.
@badger
I’m not even through (long video) and my blood pressure’s spiking. How can any administration pass a law with the huge repercussions that an exit tax has, without first knowing just WHO this law will affect? To make it worse, they only started considering how this might affect their citizens abroad when another equally devastating law to non-resident USP’s, OVDI, was introduced. And to listen Americans complain that Congress isn’t doing its job unless it’s passing laws? If they were to do anything worthwhile, they should be repealing laws like these and FATCA!
In other news, a German noble family, von Hessen, has finally unloaded its Swiss castle to a well-known Swiss artist and ex-US citizen:
http://www.handelszeitung.ch/invest/im-unterengadin-endet-eine-deutsche-adelshistorie-809343
List is on public inspection to be published Monday (9 days late)
https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2016/02/08/2016-02312/quarterly-publication-of-individuals-who-have-chosen-to-expatriate
I think there’s 1,058 names (41 names/full page * 25 full pages, minus two names taking up two lines (p. 11 & 25) meaning I think those pages only have 40 names, plus 22 on the first page and 13 on the last page). Will confirm and make a new post.
This is an enormous undercount. More than 1100 names short of what got added to NICS last year.
@Eric
…but still an enormous increase over last year:
2014: 3415
2015: 4279
Why is it that every time the quarterly list comes out, I keep thinking of Johnson, Navin R.?
Andrew Mitchel’s International Tax Blog has a write-up on the latest expatriation list:
http://intltax.typepad.com/intltax_blog/2016/02/new-expatriate-record-2015-nearly-4300-expatriations.html
Eric, thanks for the added accuracy.
New list, five days late. Around 1,159 names (41 per full page * 27 full pages + 22 on the first page and 30 on the last page)
https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2016/05/05/2016-10578/quarterly-publication-of-individuals-who-have-chosen-to-expatriate-as-required-by-section-6039g
https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2016-10578.pdf