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Comment by TazeTSchnitzel | Hacker News Reader

Ehh. The UK doesn't tax its citizens abroad and lets you into more countries with more rights than a US passport does.

What about the american revolution? You used to tax us abroad until we had a war. Now our own government is doing the same thing. Taxation without representation.

If you get into trouble though, the UK will say "well, it's your own silly fault, then", while the US is more likely to chest-beat and cry "No citizen left behind!". Not guaranteed, of course, but far more likely to do something.

I once travelled with a trinational lawyer. She self-identified as Dutch, sounded English, but chose to travel on her third passport, the US one, specifically for the above reason.

American living in Vienna, Austria. An insider secret for many of us who work for international organizations such as the UN, OSCE etc and are US Citizens, is to go to the British Embassy first! The US Embassy and Consular services are so pathetic (awesome people work there, just their hands are tied by the utterly pathetic broken system imposed above them).

The British system is 1st class worldwide. The US State Department is worthless everywhere.

With the U.S. State Department, EVERY CITIZEN IS LEFT BEHIND.

> the US is more likely to chest-beat and cry "No citizen left behind!".

Is this based on facts, or a historic record?

As a non US citizen, I am genuinely curious.

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