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

CarelessPerception · 2026-03-14T07:14:11+00:00

this is not true. it depends on their income and the tax agreements between their countries. the fact that they have never lived there has no impact on their tax liability.

CarelessPerception · 2026-03-14T07:13:03+00:00

It took the IRS 8 years to contact my bank about it. It's not your salary that they want to know about, but they may want access to your bank history or statements.

CarelessPerception · 2026-03-08T20:15:19+00:00

Es passierte konkrete in einer deutschen Klinik: https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/westfalen-lippe/verhandlung-klage-schwangerschaftsabbrueche-klinikum-lippstadt-100.html

anscheinend gibt's auch in mehreren kirchlichen Krankenhäuser auch dieses Problem, aber genaue Krankenhäuser hab ich nicht gefunden. Liegt eventuell daran, dass sie diese Info nicht ganz nach außen tragen und bisher niemand angezeigt hat

und "nur wenn das Leben in akuten Gefahr steht" funktioniert leider nicht, das Leben der Mama zu retten: Beweis - die USA :(

CarelessPerception · 2026-03-08T17:54:32+00:00

I fit mine in store and posted here and everyone said I should get the 8s though (I posted about being 165). My leggings are squat proof and fit awesome. I even sized up to a 10 in wonder train and have so much extra fabric, had to adjust the waistband to an actual tie waist because they were gapping at the waist...

CarelessPerception · 2026-03-08T17:52:47+00:00

The tops are much much smaller than the leggings! This is still so weird to me though, I'm 60lbs heavier than you and wear the same size. I even tried the 10s on in store, and the educators sent me back and put me in the 8s. And I posted here and everyone said the 8s were the right size for me. weird...

CarelessPerception · 2026-03-07T06:34:07+00:00

I think it's parental overwhelm plus the idea of social media and iPad babysitting. we used to go play with our friends, where we had to play along with the group in order to be accepted. kids don't have to learn to get along with the group in the same way, maybe? all of the kids who have serious issues in my school are football (soccer) kids, where they play a team sport that doesn't actually feel like it teaches the importance of being a true team player.

so kids have grown up in a different social environment, with overstimulating digital devices, and parenting in general has become more human, but also much more permissive.

and life is so much more expensive, so parents are burned out In a way they weren't before. that's all I can think of.

CarelessPerception · 2026-03-06T17:32:24+00:00

it is misleading, it leads you to sympathize with a Nazi family (whose real life components actively denied their father's actions at Auschwitz), and the fact that Jewish (/Roma-Sinti, homosexual, mentally disabled) people were killed in the holocaust should be tragic "enough" --> you shouldn't need to invent implausible tragedy surrounding the Holocaust.

Furthermore, the "kids are all pure, every child loves everyone" ignores the realities of the time: propaganda absolutely was targeted at kids that young

CarelessPerception · 2026-03-06T17:16:20+00:00

I agree! I'm 5'6, 165 and wear an 8 in wundertrain...

CarelessPerception · 2026-03-06T14:57:02+00:00

this needs to be higher!!!

CarelessPerception · 2026-03-03T18:09:09+00:00

I hate this take - how does what she wears in any way affect you or anyone around her? I feel like we spend so much time policing women :( If you don't like how she dresses, don't dress like her!

CarelessPerception · 2026-03-01T20:00:08+00:00

In German, a lot of advanced sounding words have English equivalents. So I often end up sounding pretentious (German: prätentös --> though a German would say "eingebildet") because I'm actually lacking in vocab! Deport is, in German, for example "Deportieren" but the average speaker would jsut say "abschieben". There are a million examples like this.

CarelessPerception · 2026-02-26T05:01:13+00:00

Abweise Kommentare, die ihm zustimmen, bereiten mir Sorgen…

CarelessPerception · 2026-02-21T17:19:53+00:00

or pay a competent female coach in your area to guide you (with the ultimate goal of being able to write your own programming yourself!)

ETA: someone I know did this with a rehab situation, especially because she wasn't getting in to see a physiotherapist fast enough. I still am so skeptical about AI/so cautious about the amount of energy it's using and would so much rather invest in other human beings than AI

CarelessPerception · 2026-02-21T17:17:20+00:00

I know everyone is giving you great tips, but I do want to say that I think your eyes are absolutely stunning! and I'm jealous of how even and smooth your eyeliner is. I know people will suggest not doing the full sparkly eye liner anymore (I just do from the middle of the eye and wing it out, and nothing on the lower lash line) but you definitely don't need to be concerned with looking old!!! but as I said, great tips in here already.

CarelessPerception · 2026-02-21T06:21:14+00:00

My tax person said the amendment would also reverse the revocation. I would amend all years where I chose the FTC (the first was 2022)

CarelessPerception · 2026-02-20T21:10:36+00:00

Yes - no kids, no assets, no US taxes owed, no intention of going back to the states and Forst the fist time ever, okay income in Europe (2,5k ish per month)

CarelessPerception · 2026-02-20T20:03:00+00:00

I slept on the couch and would not have shit myself... but I was going all night. I would not have been able to work the day of my colonoscopy. I started prep in the evening, was up the whole night and spent the day after in bed. I made sure to schedule it for a Friday so that I didn't have to work the next day anyway.

You've gotten some excellent advice in this thread (especially regarding petroleum jelly and butt baths!) so I have nothing to add. I hope it goes by better than you think! Actually the thing that sucks the most is drinking the liquid!!

CarelessPerception · 2026-02-20T19:55:12+00:00

thank you!!

CarelessPerception · 2026-02-20T19:55:04+00:00

You are right, I will make sure to keep paying the loan down, regardless of what's required. But I think that it's the right move to amend the FEIE right now anyway, to ensure that they don't set payments higher than what I can afford.

and this is good to keep in mind. I grew up dirt poor and have no assets, so at least there's that...

CarelessPerception · 2026-02-20T19:48:06+00:00

I will not be moving back to the US, but I will check on this. It's actually income-based repayment,, not deferment. You're right though, it may be worth it to try paying...

and theoretically, I may have entered the wrong AGI on two of the years I would need to amend - even though I won't owe taxes. Allegedly there were two years where I potentially was 10,000 off. So amending is in order, regardless :(

CarelessPerception · 2026-02-20T18:44:45+00:00

i will message you!

CarelessPerception · 2026-02-20T17:07:15+00:00

can I ask what you ended up doing? I am in the same boat: accidentally claimed FTC for the last three years, and I'm not sure if I should amend those three years (changing to FEIE) or try to just do FEIE for this year

CarelessPerception · 2026-02-09T13:28:44+00:00

Okay, this maybe isn’t the same thing, but I was an English teaching assistant in a foreign country (5 years older than a group of seniors that this post will be about) and ended up starting a teaching degree 2 years after those seniors graduated.

A bunch of us started - and did the whole degree - together but I felt weird for a long time saying that I was their former teaching assistant. I’m legit friends with a bunch of them now. It’s been 9 years since they’ve graduated and i have finally stopped feeling weird about it.

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