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I am hoping to renounce my US citizenship (UK/US dual citizen) but am nervous about the possibility that I will have issues travelling to the US after I renounce. I'm a bit spooked by this account: Unexplained denial of ESTA after renunciation of US... and would love to hear more accounts from people who have attempted or succeeded in travelling to the US after renouncing.
 

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This is one of those reasons that those looking into renouncing get counseled to consider all possible consequences carefully. The laws exist on the books to prohibit you from being admitted to the US, even as a "tourist" - though at present I haven't heard about them being enforced much (if at all). I know when I was looking into it, I decided I could not renounced until after the death of both my parents, simply on the off chance that I would "need" to go back in order to care for them or deal with their estates.

In theory it should just be a matter of traveling with your CLN (Certificate of Loss of Nationality) in the off chance that an Immigration officer notices your US birthplace on your non-US passport. But with the current ESTA system, it may well depend on them "codifying" that by somehow including something in the online system to recognize the fact of someone having renounced. Unfortunately, the CLNs don't seem to be subject to any sort of central data base and the format of the certificates handed out by the consulates varies greatly from one consulate to the next - so it's not like you can just pop in your CLN number so that the system can check it out.
 

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I have heard of at least one person who had no problem applying for ESTA waiving after renouncing.

I've not entered the US myself but I'm Canadian so no ESTA needed. I doubt they'd notice, since even before renouncing I only ever used my Canadian passports (showing US place of birth) and they only noticed once.
 
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