Number of Americans applied for UK citizenship

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The number of Americans appealed to British citizenship increased to a record last year, which contributes to the increase in Donald Trump’s citizens in Britain, the authorities and Britain caused tax changes.

Last year, 6,100 US citizens were applied, notes are 26 percent more than in two decades and 2023. The general applications of the British citizenship were about 251,000 to 251,000.

In particular, in the last quarter of 2024, especially in the last quarter of 2024, about 1000, according to applications in the last quarter, 40 percent a year.

Immigration lawyers, Trump’s president’s proposal and early November, along with the tax changes in Britain, helped the increase in the increase in the growing, which promotes the British passports before leaving the Americans.

Elena Hinchin, Law Firm Farrer & Co., the US political landscape of the United States is a growing interest in the UK resident, “a very serious driver” said.

“We have already seen more interest in citizenship from the United States until the election campaign.” “There is more interest than the previous Trump management.”

Hinch was encouraged to citizenship before UK’s non-dom-tax status cancellation and leave some rich Americans living in the UK.

“Many high network valuables are considering leaving the UK, taking into account the tax changes,” he said. “Now they want to apply for citizenship.

To apply to English citizenship, someone has been living in England for five years or has parents with British citizenship. If they are married to a Brit and they can apply if they live in the UK for three years.

Home Office information shows that Americans have been constantly evacuated since the end of 2022.

Madeleine Sumption, Director of the Migration Observatory at Oxford University, this was “especially interesting” for citizenship to gain citizenship last year, but people have a number of personal reasons for citizenship in other countries.

“Politics for people who move from secure countries tend to be the main reason for self-motion, but the third or fourth order factor.”

However, the director of the immigration consulting service on the law firm Ono Obeuzgha said that English citizenship was “giant spike”, in November after the US election, continued citizenship and visas since the second time of the US election.

He added that US appeals began to reflect “after the first Donald stone”, as in the first period of Trump since 2020 to 2020, began to be suitable for UK citizenship.

There was also an increase in Americans who want citizenship in Ireland 46 percent growing data Last year, Ireland ancestor and the people in North America last year.