U.S. federal layer
Selected IRS, FinCEN, U.S. Treasury, Social Security Administration and State Department sources stay separate from local-country changes.
Country Watch
What has changed for Americans living in your country?
Country Watch helps Americans abroad follow selected official U.S. and local-country sources in 28 launch countries. It keeps U.S. federal guidance separate from local-country changes and shows the source, publication date and effective date when those details apply. Each published update is reviewed before it appears. Country Watch is a Complete feature, not a real-time or exhaustive feed, and it cannot decide your individual tax, residency, immigration or benefit position.
How it works
A clearer view of the changes worth checking
Country Watch gives Complete members a reviewed starting point, then links back to the official source and the free tools that explain the U.S. side of the question.
Local-country layer
Each covered country has selected local tax, legislation, residency or treaty sources. The exact source list is shown with that country.
Reviewed before publication
When an item is published, it identifies the official source and, where relevant, its publication date and effective date.
Launch coverage
The countries covered from day one
These 28 countries represent 2,568,103 Americans and 80.84% of the supplied 2024 expat dataset. Guam is not included in this launch coverage.
- Mexico823,502 in supplied 2024 launch data (25.93%)
- Canada256,571 in supplied 2024 launch data (8.08%)
- United Kingdom243,570 in supplied 2024 launch data (7.67%)
- Germany152,501 in supplied 2024 launch data (4.8%)
- Australia114,202 in supplied 2024 launch data (3.6%)
- Israel97,258 in supplied 2024 launch data (3.06%)
- Spain68,613 in supplied 2024 launch data (2.16%)
- Japan62,509 in supplied 2024 launch data (1.97%)
- Bangladesh61,983 in supplied 2024 launch data (1.95%)
- China60,434 in supplied 2024 launch data (1.9%)
- France59,171 in supplied 2024 launch data (1.86%)
- South Korea53,226 in supplied 2024 launch data (1.68%)
- Thailand52,400 in supplied 2024 launch data (1.65%)
- Italy50,957 in supplied 2024 launch data (1.6%)
- Netherlands43,208 in supplied 2024 launch data (1.36%)
- Switzerland42,809 in supplied 2024 launch data (1.35%)
- Ireland36,363 in supplied 2024 launch data (1.14%)
- Turkey33,577 in supplied 2024 launch data (1.06%)
- New Zealand32,863 in supplied 2024 launch data (1.03%)
- Poland29,646 in supplied 2024 launch data (0.93%)
- Brazil27,764 in supplied 2024 launch data (0.87%)
- Singapore26,705 in supplied 2024 launch data (0.84%)
- Sweden26,172 in supplied 2024 launch data (0.82%)
- Panama25,732 in supplied 2024 launch data (0.81%)
- Greece24,748 in supplied 2024 launch data (0.78%)
- Colombia22,519 in supplied 2024 launch data (0.71%)
- Norway20,746 in supplied 2024 launch data (0.65%)
- Costa Rica18,354 in supplied 2024 launch data (0.58%)
Coverage boundary
Useful context, not an automated verdict
Country Watch is not a real-time or exhaustive monitoring service. It does not calculate your tax, decide residency, immigration or benefit eligibility, or replace an official process. Follow the source and seek advice where your personal facts require judgment.
Official-source foundations
The U.S. sources Country Watch keeps in view
These are the federal foundations for the U.S. layer. They are not a list of every source used across the country coverage.
Included with Complete
Keep country changes with the rest of your year
Use Country Watch alongside saved checks, deadlines, records and your Annual Summary. Complete is a fixed $39.99 per year, with no renewal increase.