Comments on: Cuba to Lift Travel Restrictions on its People http://www.theworld.org/2012/10/cuba-travel-restrictions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cuba-travel-restrictions Global Perspectives for an American Audience Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: John McAuliff http://www.theworld.org/2012/10/cuba-travel-restrictions/comment-page-1/#comment-26235 John McAuliff Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:50:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=142284#comment-26235 Cuba's welcome announcement of the end of the exit visa travel restriction poses two challenges to the Obama Administration: 1) Political Cuba is giving its citizens more freedom to travel to the US than the US gives its citizens to travel to Cuba. The White House should respond by using its power to allow all non tourist travel to Cuba without applying for a license, our equivalent of the White Card. It must also press Congress to abolish all travel restrictions. 2) Legal The Cuban Adjustment Act and wet foot dry foot policy must be suspended and repealed. With Cubans free to travel to Mexico and Canada, 'step across the border' economic migration will become a bigger problem. More here: http://thehavananote.com/2012/10/havana_one_ups_washington_travel_can_obama_and_romney_avoid_issue John McAuliff Executive Director Cuba’s
welcome announcement of the end of the exit visa travel restriction
poses two challenges to the Obama Administration:

1)
Political

Cuba is giving its citizens more freedom
to travel to the US than the US gives its citizens to travel to Cuba.
The White House should respond by using its power to allow all non
tourist travel to Cuba without applying for a license, our equivalent
of the White Card. It must also press Congress to abolish all travel
restrictions.

2) Legal

The
Cuban Adjustment Act and wet foot dry foot policy must be suspended
and repealed. With Cubans free to travel to Mexico and Canada, ‘step
across the border’ economic migration will become a bigger problem.

More
here:
http://thehavananote.com/2012/10/havana_one_ups_washington_travel_can_obama_and_romney_avoid_issue

John
McAuliff

Executive
Director

]]> By: LongShortman http://www.theworld.org/2012/10/cuba-travel-restrictions/comment-page-1/#comment-26197 LongShortman Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:48:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=142284#comment-26197 Absolutely great news for Cubans! Now, it would be great if the US government also lifted the travel prohibition to Cuba. Why is it that Canadians, EU citizens, Australians, Kiwis and citizens of practically all other nations can travel to Cuba but Americans cannot? Time for a change in this US policy. Absolutely great news for Cubans! Now, it would be great if the US government also lifted the travel prohibition to Cuba. Why is it that Canadians, EU citizens, Australians, Kiwis and citizens of practically all other nations can travel to Cuba but Americans cannot? Time for a change in this US policy.

]]> By: RogelioC http://www.theworld.org/2012/10/cuba-travel-restrictions/comment-page-1/#comment-26196 RogelioC Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:16:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=142284#comment-26196 The "land of the Free and Home of the brave," unless, as an American you should do what Cubans are now free to do: Leave and go to another country to live. As Just Me has correctly stated as an American citizen if you should like to move to another country, either to take advantage of a job opportunity given the disastrous unemployment here, or to retire, you then become simultaneously subject to income tax on your world-wide income by both your new country of residence as well as the United States. You are taxed by the US as if you never left home. Cubans are now freer to excercise the UN Guaranteed Universal Human Right of being freely able to leave any country, including your own, than are Americans. In order to escape this double tax obligation the US citizen must formally and irrevocably renounce his US citizenship before a US consular official outside of the United States. In if this renunciation is for tax reasons, then under provisions of the1996 Immigration law he can be blackisted and never permitted to visit the US again as long as he lives. The “land of the Free and Home of the brave,” unless, as an American you should do what Cubans are now free to do: Leave and go to another country to live. As Just Me has correctly stated as an American citizen if you should like to move to another country, either to take advantage of a job opportunity given the disastrous unemployment here, or to retire, you then become simultaneously subject to income tax on your world-wide income by both your new country of residence as well as the United States. You are taxed by the US as if you never left home. Cubans are now freer to excercise the UN Guaranteed Universal Human Right of being freely able to leave any country, including your own, than are Americans.
In order to escape this double tax obligation the US citizen must formally and irrevocably renounce his US citizenship before a US consular official outside of the United States. In if this renunciation is for tax reasons, then under provisions of the1996 Immigration law he can be blackisted and never permitted to visit the US again as long as he lives.

]]> By: Just_Me_Also http://www.theworld.org/2012/10/cuba-travel-restrictions/comment-page-1/#comment-26194 Just_Me_Also Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:40:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=142284#comment-26194 This is good news, but in a surprising way, they may now be freer than Americans how have been free to travel. Why is that? Well, they won't be taxed by Cuba if they reside abroad and earn money there. American's who go abroad to live and pay taxes in the Country of their residence, will continue to pay taxes and form penalties (FBAR and FATCA) forever no matter where they live in the universe which Cubans never face. So who is freer now? This is good news, but in a surprising way, they may now be freer than Americans how have been free to travel. Why is that? Well, they won’t be taxed by Cuba if they reside abroad and earn money there. American’s who go abroad to live and pay taxes in the Country of their residence, will continue to pay taxes and form penalties (FBAR and FATCA) forever no matter where they live in the universe which Cubans never face. So who is freer now?

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