U.S. citizenship renunciation inquiries have surged in Canada since Trump’s election win, lawyers say

For more than a decade, Wisconsin native Douglas Cowgill has helped Americans in Canada navigate the complex task of renouncing their U.S. citizenship, cutting themselves loose from that nation’s Internal Revenue Service in the process.But it was only in 2023 that Cowgill – a dual citizen at the time with a Canadian wife and family – took the plunge himself.