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Lucy Laederich The FAWCO U.S. Liaison helps to coordinate FAWCO’s work with other overseas advocacy organizations and represents FAWCO’s positions in Washington during Overseas Americans Week, for example, or when legislation is drafted or introduced that directly affects Americans living and working overseas. |
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Dear Federation of American Women's Clubs Overseas,
The migration debate in the United States frequently focuses on how many foreign born enter and reside in the country. Much less attention is paid to Americans who live abroad. While small numbers of high-profile American expats such as Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright or Josephine Baker have long captured the imagination...
On February 8, just before Overseas Americans Week 2013, Representative Carolyn Maloney, longstanding champion of overseas Americans, introduced HR 597, a bill to create a bipartisan federal commission to look at the issues facing Americans overseas, including the military, and make concrete recommendations to Congress for solutions. Members of the Commission are to include members of organizations that represent United...
On Thursday, February 28, the House voted to approve the already passed Senate version of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) which, though not perfect and despite the fact that overseas Americans were absent from the act, did not include last-minute tweaks that could have seriously weakened it.
Following the 236 to 138 vote, the bill now heads for the...
FAWCO is happy to announce that Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Mike Honda (D-CA), have introduced H.R.597, legislation to create a Federal commission to study the impact of government policies upon the millions of Americans living overseas.
“Americans living and working abroad are our country’s informal ambassadors and help strengthen the U.S. economy and promote American influence. Yet they too...
The overseas American community has lost a great friend and champion, the kind of man we encounter only rarely in our lives.
Andy Sundberg, founder of the Children’s Citizens Rights League in 1977 and American Citizens Abroad in 1978, Secretary of the Overseas Americans Academy, indefatigable researcher and prolific writer, died on Thursday, August 30. He is being referred to...
Two recent announcements from Washington, one from IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman, and one from Pamela Mitchell, Acting Director of the Federal Voting Assistance Program, appear to signal a new awareness of the realities of the overseas American population.
On June 26, Commissioner Shulman announced new procedures to take effect on September 1, 2012, to make compliance easier for delinquent overseas...
