FAWCO's partner organization AARO (Association of Americans Resident Overseas) is launching a survey of the overseas Americans community concerning the “denial of financial services” to US citizens and greencard holders.
There is no need today to describe the precarious situation in which many “US tax persons” find themselves because financial services are being denied both in the United States (though “Patriot Act” provisions do not require it) and abroad (due to FATCA-related reporting requirements).
AARO is requesting feedback from its global membership and from other concerned citizens outside its framework. In response to specific questions from Congressional committees, AARO has refined a questionnaire they are asking overseas Americans and overseas American organizations to circulate as widely as possible.
FAWCO encourages its members and visitors to its website to forward this questionnaire* to friends, family, organization members and partner organizations, to succeed in maximum coverage of the overseas American population.
Click here to download the AARO survey (which can be submitted anonymously).
Thank you so much for your help!
* This is a PDF form which can be filled in online. Be sure to open the file in Adobe (see "Open with a different viewer" and select "Open with Adobe") and not in your web browser (Safari will probably not work; Firefox will). Click on "Sign" to fill in and sign (to check a box, hover with the cursor until the "hand" becomes a "finger", then click); when your form is completed, you can create a "signature" and sign it, then "Save a copy". This is the form you can then attach to an email and send to . Do not try to upload and send the file directly online! You can also print it out and send it to AARO, 34 Avenue de New York, 75116 Paris, France.
