Federal law requires states to send ballots to absentee voters 45 days before a regular election for federal office. For 2022 that date is September 24, less than 2 weeks away! Are you ready? Here’s what to do.
Many news stories, and even a FAWCO article, warn about current threats to democracy in the USA. While each of us is just one person, we can do much if we act together. But we must act now – Election Day for overseas voters is October 8, fewer than 70 days away.
“American democracy is … under assault from the ground up,” is the grim conclusion of a report from The Brookings Institutio
n and the States United Democracy Center. Although the USA triumphed in holding a secure and legitimate national election in 2020 with the highest voter turnout in a century – in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic – some Americans have...
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It’s more than time for FAWCO and its clubs and members to strongly encourage overseas Americans to vote in the 2022 US elections. While Election Day is November 8 in the US, it comes a month earlier for overseas voters – who must receive and return absentee ballots by the deadlines set by their states. Overseas voters must start the...
April 18, 2022
Note: Expat children with foreign financial accounts are also required to file FBARs