By Dako For a long time I filed the green card question under “not urgent.” We haven’t decided whether we’re moving to Japan, splitting the year, or staying put. So the card just sits there, doing its job, waiting for…
By Dako The scariest version of the story goes like this: you give up your green card, and the IRS takes half of everything on your way out. I’ve now spent enough evenings inside section 877A of the tax code…
If you hold a green card and think you might leave the US someday, there’s a phrase you need to meet long before any moving trucks show up: covered expatriate. The covered expatriate rules decide whether giving up a green…