Many "accidental Americans" filed a lawsuit after the State Department announced it would lower the fee to renounce citizenship.
Many "accidental Americans" filed a lawsuit after the State Department announced it would lower the fee to renounce citizenship.
But the claim to begin with was that they increased the price due to increased demand straining resources. It would be more odd if it didn't come down after a time with that justification.
Increased demand would bring increased revenue to cover increased resources, no?
Hah, good one.
Generally governments don't work on such a simple profit model. Especially not when activity in one sector (removing citizenship) damages activity in another (collecting taxes).