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Americans Are Buying an Escape Plan

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Donald Trump proposed a U.S. “gold card” for $5 million for wealthy foreigners to buy green cards.

Alana Semuels : Trump has it backwards: The international rich aren’t trying to come here, so much as Americans trying to get out.

U.K. citizens now represent the majority of clients looking for an exit, she says.

Thousands of Americans a year apply to visa programs abroad.

Jonathan Lemire : The U.S. is beginning to take on the contours of a nation without a clear future.

He says Americans without a ton of money are finding ways to access new passports by re-hyphenating themselves.

Many are casting around for long-lost relatives through which they can claim Italian , Irish , Austrian , or German citizenship.

Mina Hsiao and Chris Carter are applying for a visa to live in Sarawak , on the Malaysian island of Borneo .

They recently returned to San Diego after spending most of the past 16 years in Shanghai , but within months , they had applied for a.

permit to live abroad, which costs about $33,500 a person.

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informal

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English

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