Fleeing Trump: record applications to become British citizens from the US
Never since 2004 have so many Americans applied for British citizenship. But London puts the brakes on: 'we don't want to become an island of foreigners'
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This has never happened. In the first three months of this year, the Trump presidency has given us a new record: the highest number of American citizens applying for British citizenship since surveys began in 2004.
That's almost two thousand applications, a 12% increase over the previous quarter, which in turn had seen a steep rise in applications thanks to the tycoon's return to the Oval Office.
All this while American students, after Trump's cuts to US universities, look to Canadian universities. Make America Expat Again.
The Great Escape of 2020
.The last spike in applications to become British citizens was recorded in 2020, during Trump's first presidential term and at the height of the Cvid-19 pandemic.
Other data from the Bambridge Accountants study reveal that in the first half of 2020, over 5,800 Americans renounced their citizenship, almost three times as many as in the whole of 2019.
