Scenarios

A U.S. green card makes you a U.S. tax resident — even when you live, work, and pay tax abroad. Here's what you owe, the trap of letting it expire, and the formal abandonment process if you actually want out.

Your child born outside the U.S. to a U.S.-citizen parent is almost certainly a U.S. citizen — and a U.S. taxpayer for life unless they renounce. Here's the citizenship rules, the SSN process, and what you can do for them now to make their life easier.

Your foreign-citizen spouse isn't automatically pulled into the U.S. tax net — but your filing status, gift-tax limits, and FBAR exposure all change the day you marry. Here's how to plan.

Moving abroad in retirement looks tempting until you see the U.S. tax web that follows you. Here's how Social Security is taxed where you land, how to handle the 401(k)/IRA, and which countries have treaty terms worth optimizing around.

The $250K/$500K Section 121 exclusion can still shelter you even from overseas — if you meet the use test. Plus FIRPTA withholding (when it doesn't apply to you), state cap-gains traps, and the foreign-country side of the sale.

You hop countries every 90 days, you have no fixed home, and the IRS still expects a full tax return. Here's the actual playbook: how PPT works for nomads, the SE tax problem, how to set state residency, and where most nomads get blindsided.