Twenty years ago, when I picked up an assignment to an Intel Squadron after Europe...

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Who could possibly be looking over our shoulder?

It's interesting. We know a Croatian living here in the Düsseldorf area who insists that our daughters will have to give up one or the other of their nationalities. he says this because he had to. But he is an immigrant, and our daughters are both by birth. They can't "give up" my nationality or that of my wife. And indeed, so far, the Americans and the Germany are both cool with their dual nationality. Birth seems to be an incontrovertible argument. Unfortunately for my younger daughter, the USA is one of three countries on earth that does not recognize residence-based taxation, so even though she is taxed way higher in Germany than she would be if she lived in the USA, she is still forced to file a US tax return as an American citizen. Unlike me, though, all her income is from Germany, so she doesn't get with double taxation like I do (it's illegal under the double taxation treaty between Germany and the USA but the Germans choose to ignore the treaty for that part of my income that is source-taxed in the USA, and want to tax it again).