Don’t Let Anyone Keep You from Voting in 2024

While the 2024 US election remains the most important of our lives, overseas voters may face additional barriers to casting their ballots this year. Consider whether any of the problems below may affect you and take action now. Protect your right to vote today!

1. Check your registration status through Can I Vote.
2. Be sure that your signature on your ballot envelope...

Social Security for non-US Citizens Spouses

by Alisa Cook-Roehs, AIWC Düsseldorf

Although Social Security doesn’t fall directly under Tax and Banking, as part of the US Issues Team, we do collect articles of interest and pass them on to the FAWCO membership. The following are two such synopses written by members relaying their experiences in filing for individual social security benefits and benefits for a non-US citizen spouse.

Our Election Day is in September – get ready!

On July 28, many politicians and pundits trumpeted that the US 2024 election “is just 100 days away!”  And that was true for domestic voters. For those of us who live overseas, however, Election Week starts on September 21, when the states begin sending out ballots, and “ends” on September 28, by which time FAWCO’s partner the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) recommends that...

Attend and Promote US Voting Town Hall

September 4, 7:00 pm CET on Zoom

Sign up to join us at FAWCO’s virtual US Voting Town Hall on Wednesday, September 4 at 7:00 pm CET – and help us promote the event. Early September is a crucial time for overseas voters to make sure that they:

1. have registered to vote/requested a ballot; and
2. have time to send it back...

How can I talk about the threats to US democracy?

FAWCO’s US Voting Committee has always asked overseas Americans who are FAWCO members to vote and promote voting in US elections in several ways. In the last few years, we have suggested some new actions to take, as threats to US democracy have risen. This article gives my answers to the best question I was asked at FAWCO’s Interim Meeting...

Seize your chance to take part in the US election: register to vote/request a ballot now

The USA needs overseas Americans to play their part in the nationwide elections in autumn 2024. If you ask why your country needs you so much, see US Voting Committee articles here, here and here, to name just a few sources of information.

If you have not already registered to vote/requested a ballot, do it now. Why? Overseas voters have...