Number of Americans who ordered the British Citizenship Break Record after Trump
According to the first data from Donald Trump’s second presidential tenure, a record number of Americans requested British citizenship between January and March.
About 1,931 Americans have applied for citizenship, according to the UK Interior Ministry released by the UK’s internal ministry, which was released on Thursday (22), compared to the largest number of records in 2004 and the previous quarter. The requests were already firing from October to December as Trump was re -election.
Successful requests to permanently set in the UK from US citizens, instead of going there at first, have reached the record for the last period, the last period official data available.
Settlement has the right to live, work and study indefinitely in the UK and can be used to request citizenship. More than 5,500 Americans received a permanent residence in 2024, fifth in 2023.
The last time American requests for British citizenship At Trump’s first presidency and in 2020, they raised it in the height of the Covid -19 epidemic.
In the first six months of the other data 2020, more than 5,800 Americans have abandoned their citizenship, increasing the number recorded in 2019. Bambridge Accountants, a office in New York and London, showed that the company specializes in international tax.
Bambridge Accountants partner Alistair Bambridge said, “They are mostly people who have left the US and decide to fit it.” CNN In August 2020.
He said that many people who renounced citizenship were unhappy with the political climate in the United States at the time and complained that the pandemic was being treated, but another reason for his decision was usually taxes.
Although most Americans are trying to build life elsewhere in the UK and in Europe, it is more difficult.
British Prime Minister Kir Stremer said last week that the government would use the needs of legal immigrants and extend the time waiting for a new citizenship.
And early this week, ITalia has declared a law to eliminate the opportunity to obtain citizenship By great -tasks. The country has already harmed visa regulations to citizens outside the European Union.
