But the case is yet to be tried in court
The US government has dismissed the Association of Accidental Americans (AAA) in their bid to scrap the fees required to give up US citizenship.
The AAA submitted the legal challenge in December 2020 claiming that the renunciation of US citizenship was protected by the country’s fifth amendment’s substantive due process clause and that the fee required to give up citizenship fails strict scrutiny.
At the moment, anyone looking to waive their US citizenship is required to pay $2,350 (£1,700, €1,945), a sum that the AAA claims is prohibitive.
But acting assistant attorney general Brian Boynton disagrees.