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Comment by tehlike

12 hours ago

As long as you keep your greencard, you still need to declare your income worldwide.

Depending on your home country, having US passport opens up a lot of other possibilities for travel too.

Furthermore if you have held* a green card for the last 8 (of 15 years) i.e. you hold permanent resident status you also become in-scope for the tax expatriation law that apply to US Citizens, and possible ongoing declaration requirements: https://www.expatriationattorneys.com/green-card-u-s-exit-ta...

I've never been US-resident; the reason I know about this is talking to someone who relinquished theirs when I asked if they could keep it.

*from the U.S. Government's point of view.