Renouncing U.S. citizenship is about to get a lot more expensive

[Bluenorthwest]

7. It is dishonest to claim one is being 'kept in' because one is charged a fee when one rejects one's

citizenship in favor of taking another. There is no nation which allows a citizen to simply 'swap out' citizenship. It is not the same as limiting ability to exit the country, as you claim. To renounce, you must already have qualified for citizenship elsewhere. That is, you don't want your passport revoked, you want to surrender it in exchange for another passport. It is hard to convince me that persons with financial or other ties to a new country strong enough to cause a desire to for total repatriation would be hindered by a small fee as part of what is a complex and expensive process no matter what. It's impossible to convince me that charging a fee for changing one's permanent citizenship is the same as preventing people from traveling abroad or even living abroad.