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by toastal 1569 days ago
Counterpoint: having a US passport has made securing banking very difficult as a lot of places don't want to deal with the IRS. It's been impossible for me to get an account on a local currency crypto exchange well because they don't want to deal with the FTC rules. The last one I looked at, their FAQs included a special place to upload your US citizenship renunciation forms. A US passport puts you an a lot lists with Syria, Yemen, Iran, etc. (and one could easily argue the US as a terrorist country).