Comments by "Matthew Nirenberg" (@matthewnirenberg) on "How to Visit the USA After Renouncing Citizenship" video.

  1. I highly doubt you have an EU Schengen country passport, so you don't have one of the most cherished citizenships. The USA is one of the worst citizenships you could ever have in this world - its gets you nowhere and will actually stop you from having bank accounts outside the USA and bans you from investments in most countries as they don't want the headache of reporting to the USA.
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  2. Absolutely. I find it hilarious that so much emphasis is placed on 'visa-free' travel as what people forget is that's only for tourism. If you do any work, business, investing, banking, etc. whilst there as a tourist you'll end up in jail and banned from ever returning. This is why I say that full rights and freedom of movement bloc passports are far more valuable than passports with 'visa-free' to everywhere. Also, they always trash talk Vanuatu even though its a great passport for a zero tax life, and the only legal way to live in Vanuatu; who care's that it doesn't have 'visa-free' to the EU - that's what the other passports in a passport portfolio are for, better access.
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  3. What 'most sought after passport'? He's not talking about giving up an EU (Schengen) passport. He's talking about giving up the utterly worthless US Citizenship.
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  4. I find it odd that the USA requires Hungarians to be born within Hungary. Thanks to Schengen, its perfectly normal for a Hungarian to be born in ANY Schengen Country. If they want to be pedantic then they should simply require proof that the persons parents are Hungarian (i.e. no naturalization within one or two generations). Regarding Poland - they don't have ANY fast-track program. The Poles Card is very restricted on who can get it, and its only a way onto a pathway to naturalization. The only way to speed up naturalization is to be genuinely married to a Polish citizen, have children and be able to prove the marriage is genuine and not ending. It also helps to be slavic. The only other option is that you can directly petition the President for citizenship however that's basically denied 99.9999% of the time unless you can prove you're ethnically Polish, that your family was persecuted by Nazis and/or Soviets/Communists and that there's a minor break in your family chain of citizenship as a result of that persecution.
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