Record number of Americans applied for UK citizenship after Trump victory
Americans applying for British citizenship is nothing new. However, the UK announced that they’ve seen a higher than normal volume of Americans applying for British Citizenship over the previous years. For last year, the increased volume occurred in the last quarter of 2024, matching when Donald Trump won re-election. Americans mentioned political climate and taxes as their reasoning for this move.
From CNN:
More than 6,100 US citizens applied for UK citizenship last year, the most since records began in 2004, when fewer than 3,000 Americans submitted an application, according to data from the UK’s Home Office.
Last year’s numbers also saw a marked uptick from 2023, a year with fewer than 5,000 applications by US citizens.
Applications by Americans soared in the last three months of 2024, when more than 1,700 people applied — the most in any quarter in the past two decades.
The surge is reminiscent of an upswing recorded in the first six months of 2020, when more than 5,800 Americans gave up their citizenship, nearly tripling the number from all of 2019.
That uptick came in the wake of Trump’s first presidency and changes in tax policy, analysts argued then, and were mostly Americans who had already been living in Britain for some time.
While many people who renounced their citizenship complained of being unhappy with the political climate in the US, another reason for their decision is often taxes, Alistair Bambridge, a partner at Bambridge Accountants, told CNN in August 2020.
Additional Reading:
Szekeres, E. (2025, March 5). Record number of Americans applied for UK citizenship after Trump re-election. CNN. Link.
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I get the feeling they are going to be sorely surprised to learn the difference between being a citizen and being a subject.
Sucks to be them..
Bye Felicia..
Ari Gold said it best…
The Yookay is crime infested shithole now unless you’re a millionaire, but they’ll sodomize you in taxes. Just make sure that if they give up their US Citizenship, they have to get the back-of-the-line if they ever want if back.
Hopefully these A-Holes will give up their right to be an American citizen and be a citizen of just one country namely England.
Delta’s ready when you are, mofos. Just make sure you buy a one way ticket.
Buh Bye….BUH BYE….BUH….BYE!
Bye.
Now they can show their gratitude to their new homeland by joining the military and supporting Ukraine.
Let them become disillusioned and want to return home. No dual citizen crap, stand in line and apply for citizenship when they want to return.
Goodbye and good luck.
While I admit our country is far from perfect (though it is getting better under the new admin), I cannot understand those who wish to trade our country’s liberty for Britain’s tyranny. Samuel Adams was right on the money:
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
-The Man, Sam Adams
As famed Englishman Michael Palin once said- “Howls! Howls of derisive laughter!”
Bye.
Enjoy the tea and crumpets….
Pick one….
And don’t come back…
Taxes? Do they have any idea how high the UK taxes ARE? Or do they want to pay more?
You are making a very bad assumption here that these are the types of citizens that pay taxes and don’t cheat like crazy. Yet another reason to say adios.
Top rate for tax year 2024 to 2025 48%Over £125,141
BUT the UK DOES have the socialized medical system that liberals slobber and drool over demanding that we have the same!
We’ll see how they like the NHS when they get a cancer diagnosis and have to wait twelve weeks to see an oncologist.
And another 12 weeks of waiting on the treatment list to get started with chemo. But it does keep the cost of medical treatment down when all the patients die before treatment starts.
Sounds very much like the Phoenix VA.
I guess they don’t understanding how the UK taxes their citizens. We figured that out in 1776.
England doesn’t have citizens, just subjects.. as these morons will.soon find our.
The UK not only has high income taxes, it has VAT taxes on everything that jacks up the cost of every product. Also, every subject has to pay a license fee to the government annually for every TV the person owns.
How do you say “take a hike” in English?
“Oy! Off wit y’then!”
Good for them! Get the fuck out, and STAY out!
Y’all dont come back now! Ya hear?
I’m actually glad Canada is shyte now.
Otherwise, they would be coming here.
And then it would be too easy to return to the US.
You’ll miss 1776.
“Smell that Bill? Smells like a bunch of whiny ass liberals are fleeing to embrace a true socialist state!”
They will fit in well, but only 6100 Biden voters want to be subjects of a senile king. The rest of the 80 million won’t do with their feet what their mouth promised.
I’m curious (but not enough so to do the research) how many people went the other way – became US citizens after fleeing the UK in those same timeframes…
Great Britton equals Germany Light.
Hey, these days…
I hope they have fun with that and brush up on their Arabic.
FINE BY ME, here’s hoping it starts with all the foaming-at-the-mouth TARDO celebrities that promised to leave the USA as soon as DJT got elected!
Unfortunately Ellen Degenerate didn’t stay over there for very long.
Ok,, bye!!!!
My grandfather always told me that stupidity should be painful, and expensive!
I wonder how many are going to learn the hard way that they put people in jail there for making the wrong comment on social media. Be kind of funny IMO.
I don’t really believe in dual citizenship, I don’t understand how one can true allegiance to more than one nation. I believe you should be able to change your citizenship but not hold more that one at once. Just one humble turds irrelevant opinion.