You're listening to KFI, AM 640, the Bill Handel show On Demand, on the IHeart Radio app.

This is Handel on the law, marginal legal advice where I tell you you have absolutely no case.

Now, I don't know if you know the issue with renouncing U.S. citizenship.

People who renounce U.S. citizenship usually do it for financial reasons.

One of the things about being an American citizen, it doesn't matter where you live, any money you earn is taxed by the IRS.

It's that simple.

You're an American, go to Nome Alaska and earn some money,

not, well, that's in the United States,

but go to the most obscure island on the planet.

You earn money, you pay US taxes.

So it's mostly financial, although lately, there's been an influx, an uptick,

for political reasons. So it's not easy, by the way, to renounce your citizenship. It's arduous,

it's costly. It requires extensive work from consular officials confirming that anyone's seeking to give up

their citizenship fully understands what they're getting into. Obtaining what is called a

certificate of loss of nationality requires two separate interviews with the consulate, a vetting process,

and a formal oath of renunciation.

And this can take months.

Now, as you know, I was born in Brazil.

Maybe you don't know, but I was born in Brazil, and my parents were Brazilian citizens.

And in those days, and they came in the United States in the 1950s, the world didn't really respect dual nationality.

Today, you can be a dual national. Today, I am a citizen of Brazil and the United States, and I'm applying for citizenship. I'm going to be a Polish citizen so I can be the butt of every Polish joke you've ever heard. And that is why, because at some point in the future, when I finish broadcasting, I want to spend a few months a year

in Italy. That's sort of my dream. Well, if I'm a Polish citizen that I'm a member of the

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