An advocacy group representing overseas U.S. citizens sued the State Department over what it argues is an unconstitutional fee Americans must pay to renounce their citizenship.
State established a $450 fee for processing renunciation requests in 2010, which the complaint cites as the first time in U.S. history the government imposed a fee as a precondition to expatriate. That fee was later increased to $2,350, a move State said was necessary to cover what amounts to a “close and detailed case-by-case review.”
The Paris-based Association of Accidental Americans, in a lawsuit filed Tuesday with the ...