The U.S. Treasury’s quarterly Federal Register notice — the list of people whose loss of U.S. citizenship or long-term permanent-residency status has been reported to the government — named 1,781 people for the quarter ending June 30, 2026, published on July 23, 2026. That is the largest quarterly count since September 2024’s 2,123, and 68.5% more than the 1,057 names reported for the same quarter in 2025. Over the trailing four quarters, 5,790 people have appeared on the list, the highest rolling four-quarter total since 2020, according to an analysis by Greenback Tax Services, a firm specializing in American expatriate tax filing.
The rise is not a one-quarter blip: three of the last four quarterly notices topped 1,400 names each, and the first half of 2026 (3,243 names) ran 38.5% ahead of the same period in 2025 (2,342). Even so, the current total remains below the record set in 2020, when the Federal Register published 6,705 names for the year — still the highest annual count since the modern quarterly list began. The list is a proxy, not a direct renunciation count: it reflects when Treasury receives notice of an expatriation rather than when the person actually gave up their status, so quarterly figures can lag the underlying decisions, and the list also includes some long-term green-card holders ending their U.S. tax residency alongside former citizens.
For anyone who has already relocated abroad long-term and is weighing U.S. tax-filing obligations against renouncing citizenship, the practical read is that the current wave is real and sustained rather than a single-quarter spike, but it has not (yet) overtaken 2020 as the highest on record — the next quarterly notice, covering July–September 2026, will show whether the pace keeps climbing.
References
Greenback Tax Services – U.S. Expatriation Reporting Hits Its Highest Level in Six Years
