&gt; Expats absolutely do have elected officials who are supposed to represent them.<p>You yourself stated above that they don&#x27;t?<p>I got your argumentation as &quot;I never was represented anyway, so not being represented as expat did change nothing&quot;. But the difference is that the other americans have representatives that are supposed to act in their interests. Expats have only the afterthought of being american and that one could think about them sometimes, since they vote.<p>Who are the elected officials who are supposed to represent them? I do not think that there is one, that is not how your system works.