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[–] realitista@lemmus.org 44 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Expatsi sounds like a company that would use you as a drug mule.

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[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 35 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I left. No regrets, just a lot of grief. As a trans immigrant, the US does not and has never represented me.

Fun fact, I still have to pay US taxes but I can't renew my US passport. What's that about taxation without representation?

[–] owsei@programming.dev 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What happens if you just don't pay?

[–] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I have no idea what happens if you don't but, next administration might be competent. I wouldn't wanna find out under people who actually know what they're doing.

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Nothing, if you never go back to the US.

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why can't you renew your passport? As a fellow expat I do it whenever it expires at the local embassy.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] realitista@lemmus.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They won't let you renew your passport because your trans?

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

They've been holding them up in bureaucratic limbo, and at best you get a passport that misrepresents and endangers you anywhere you go. They refuse to process passports if they don't believe your marker matches your ASAB, but then also say they aren't processing gender marker changes.

At least, I've heard/seen enough reports that I'm not going to try it. Also, with the effort it took to change that info in the first place, I'd rather have a correct but expired passport than a wrong one

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

Motherfuckers.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you have dual citizenship why not renounce your US citizenship and stop paying US taxes? If you don’t live in the US and you can’t get a passport, there’s not much advantage to having citizenship.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Oh I've considered it, and they just made it cheaper!

[–] modernangel@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

is it irony that the regime bending over backward for privileged people is most of all driving out privileged people

[–] HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 19 points 3 weeks ago

Not quite - the regime is bending over backwards for people it feels it can control. They don't care about the privileged people leaving, just that there are enough bodies left to fight wars & work.

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[–] RecursiveParadox@piefed.social 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I Left a long time ago (for the second time) and will never go back. My kids got a far better education, my income prospects greatly improved, and life here is just ...easier. Mind you I left from NYC which is everything except easy. Still love NYC but will not go back to visit under these circumstances.

My wife and I fought actively for change on the local level. It changed nothing.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] RecursiveParadox@piefed.social 9 points 3 weeks ago

NL. I've stated it here and other places before and my Bsky profile is mostly shots of my city. I am trivially easy to dox.

But, I have friends, so don't do that please.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 weeks ago

It's the people you can least afford to lose and hardest to replace who tend to go first.

[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Im too depressed to leave. Like just the fact a human being would prefer only high skill humans just is the most human comment ever in this thread.

Not “itd be cool to get the nicest people”. But just saying we prefer skills and screw the others. I really dont have faith in humanity anymore.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

I've considered leaving, but I'd need a good work from home job to do it

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

If there’s ever a way to take a history of everyone that gets grifted by this it will be fascinating and horrifying

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