Special general elections will be held on Tuesday, September 2, 2025 for two seats in the Florida legislature: State Senate District 15 and State House District 40, which represent parts of Orange County. Overseas voters – who are from these districts and intend to return to the USA – should register/request a ballot right away in order to take part...

May 8 update: Excellent news for overseas voters! A federal judge ordered that the election results be certified, ruling that:

Invalidating votes that had already been cast violated voters’ due process rights. … You establish the rules before the game. You don’t change them after the game is done.

As the ruling will not be appealed, ballots cast by military and...

On March 28, FAWCO joined four other partner organizations – the US Vote Foundation, the Association of Americans Resident Overseas (AARO), American Citizens Abroad (ACA) and the Secure Families Initiative – in signing and publishing a letter opposing the dangerous “SAVE” Act.

Read the letter, send it to your Representative and Senators, and phone them immediately to share your opposition...

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April 13 update: After unfortunately passing the House of Representatives last week, the dangerous "SAVE" Act moves to the Senate. Tell your senators to vote no on this voter suppressing bill, and especially to vote no on “cloture”. That will stop the bill in its current state, and perhaps motivate cooperation to improve it.  

Voting in the Senate has two stages...

If you are a US citizen required to file income taxes, here are some of the key dates you need to keep in mind in 2025:

April 15, 2025

• file individual tax return (Form 1040) – for expats, this deadline is automatically extended until June 16, 2025;
• file Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) – definitely do so by October...

American FAWCO members are used to largely sitting out the last month before Election Day in the USA. We register as early as possible in the relevant year and vote and return our ballots as soon as they arrive, starting in late September. Some of us have to find and return a Federal Write-in Absentee Ballot (FWAB) if our proper...