Extradition Back to USA

[Jan]

So ..if you are a criminal and come to DR to live the USA will find you? How?
Also..if I made no income this year at all do I still have to file income tax in USA?
About extradition. I knew a guy that was hiding out for about 12 years here. Didn't know he was hiding until the FBI came and got him. He was using a fake ID and getting money from someone in USA using their ID. The way he got busted is he got some brain anurisim and lost his mind. We who knew him didn't know how to help him and called the Embasy for them to do something. Tehy came and took him to a hospital and 2 weeks later we saw in the newspaper that the FBI came and got him. He was wanted in USA for some serious crimes. WE who knew him had no idea about all this stuff.
But if your running someday you could be caught no matter how good you are at hiding.

 

[Jigglebelly]

Going on the assumption that you are not (yet) a fugitive, here are a few suggestions:

Forget about renouncing US citizenship. It will only draw attention to you.

File a US tax return every year no matter what else you do. All income from US sources needs to be accounted for. Any other?.... let your concience and your sense prudence be your guides.

A second passport can be handy when establishing bank and brokerage accounts outside both the US and the DR.

Don't officially (in the US) change your residence to the DR. Keep a US address and use it for all dealings with american institutions. Your absence should be a "vacation" be it for 10 days or 10 years.

Unless you are escaping with millions, nobody cares about YOU. Both the IRS and the Child Support people will wait until you return to the US. Neither gang of thieves has a budget that permits starting extradition proceedings over paltry sums of money.

Communicate with your family and friends only through an intermediary if you risk it at all.

By all means get a DR passport. No it is not very useful for extensive travel, but when your US passport expires, it may be the ONLY one you can get. Hell's Bells, you might be on the no-fly list just for posting to this message board. How likely is it, that you will be permitted to renew your US passport after 10 years of dubious tax returns?

Finally, if you are going to do something, then do it soon. The way things are going, there is no telling what the govenment might be prepared to do to stop or to hinder you even next year.

Lay Low and Good Luck