Americans who give up US citizenship

The headline

These are names the IRS lists in a quarter, not renunciations that happened in that quarter. The section on what the list is says what that means.

Names per quarter since 2010

Three notices from 2009 are in the CSV but not in the chart. The Federal Register also carries two correction notices. One of them, of 11 September 2024, changes the quarter of the notice of 29 January 2024. The other, of 21 January 2026, corrects one entry in it.

Names per year

A year here is the year of the quarter a notice covers, so the four notices of a year can be published into the next.

What the list is

The notices are published under IRC section 6039G. Each says its listing contains the name of each individual losing United States citizenship, within the meaning of section 877(a) or 877A, with respect to whom the Secretary received information during the quarter it names.

The notices also say that, for the listing, long-term residents as defined in section 877(e)(2) are treated as if they were citizens who lost citizenship. A name on the list is therefore not always a former citizen.

The date a citizen is treated as relinquishing citizenship, for the exit tax, is the earliest of four dates the IRS page names: the renunciation before a consular officer once a Certificate of Loss of Nationality is issued, the signed statement of voluntary relinquishment once approved, the issue of the Certificate by the State Department, or the cancellation of a naturalization by a court.

The notices count people the IRS received information about during a quarter. They do not say when each person renounced, and the counts here are names in a notice, not renunciations in a quarter.

What it is not

We found no official page that gives a measure of how complete the list is, or how long after a renunciation a name appears, and we say nothing on that ourselves. The names carry no nationality, no country of residence and no reason. The State Department page we read gives no fee and no yearly total.

Counts swing widely from quarter to quarter, from 45 to 2,907 names since 2010. We report each count as published and do not explain the swings.

We make no estimate of renunciations that are not on the list.

No official page we read gives a count of renunciations by people who live in France, and this page makes no claim about France. For what holding two nationalities means for a person in France, see the guide to dual citizenship between France and the United States.

The fee and the exit tax

The exit tax applies to a "covered expatriate". The IRS page says a person is one if the average annual net income tax test is met, if net worth is $2 million or more, or if the person fails to certify five years of tax compliance on Form 8854. How it works for a given person is a question for a tax professional, and the guide to US taxes while living in France covers the filing duties that continue for a US citizen abroad.

How to cite these figures

The notices are works of the US Government and in the public domain, as govinfo.gov's policy page says. The counts are ours: we count the table rows of each notice. To cite this page:

EasyFranceNow, "US citizenship renunciations: counts from the Federal Register", https://easyfrancenow.com/data/us-citizenship-renunciations, counts made 28 October 2026 from the IRS notices it links.

Download the counts as a CSV. One row per quarter with the notice address and its citation, then one row per year.

Methodology

• Finding the notices. The Federal Register API lists every notice titled "Quarterly Publication of Individuals, Who Have Chosen To Expatriate". We took those published from June 2009. The federalregister.gov pages answer a bot check to scripts, so the text of each notice was read from the same issue on govinfo.gov, where the Government Publishing Office keeps the Federal Register in XML.
• Counting. In that XML a name is one table row. We count the rows of each notice, and the script that does it is in our repository. No name is stored. The counts are checked against the file each time the site is built.
• The quarter. We take the quarter each notice says it covers ("information during the quarter ending"). The notice of 29 January 2024 says September 30, 2023, which is the quarter of the notice before it. An IRS correction of 11 September 2024 says it covers the fourth quarter of 2023, and we follow the correction.
• Terms. The Federal Register's own page of API terms asks for a CAPTCHA, which we do not complete, so we did not read it. We used the API, the access route the block page itself names for programs, and the govinfo.gov copy. govinfo.gov's policy page says works of the US Government are in the public domain.
• The fee and the thresholds. Read on 28 October 2026 on the pages in the table: the Federal Register final rule of 13 March 2026, the eCFR table of 22 CFR 22.1, the IRS expatriation page (last reviewed 4 October 2026) and the IRS Revenue Procedure 2025-32.
• What we do not do. We add no estimate, we give no figure for any country or city, and we make no statement about why people renounce.

For the other official counts see Americans in France: the official numbers. How we check facts in general is on How we verify. Pages read: 9.

What each number means: the definitions of every measure on these pages, from the publishers' own metadata.