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...
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
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...
30/10/24 update: Wonderful news: a judge has dismissed a suit brought by 6 Pennsylvania congressmen to suppress the votes of their own overseas constituents. Thanks go to everybody who fought this lawsuit, including the Brennan Center, who drafted an amicus brief on the case signed by multiple expat organizations, including FAWCO, and multiple overseas Pennsylvania voters, including a FAWCO member. Now all...
States started sending ballots to overseas voters on September 21. The Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) advised us to return our completed ballots by September 28. If you did so, great! If you have not voted – or even registered – it’s not too late if you take action now.
The survival of US democracy is at stake in 2024.