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Originally Posted by fordtruckin
I highly doubt it. Maybe if he had renounced his citizenship but taxes?? By that reasoning they’d refuse entry to his father returning to the states because of back taxes. They can’t refuse entry to a citizen returning.
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I don't know if it has to do so much with being able to freely travel, but more about whether the father's citizenship is in good standing in order to sponsor the son's application. That means that all tax filings need to be up-to-date. For the most part, income taxes are harmonized between the USA and Canada, but still, a separate return must be filed.
Under Obama they went after expats hard, if they hadn't filed their US tax returns. Remember the fiasco where the IRS demanded that Canadian banks divulge the names of the US citizens who held accounts there?
Initially our finance minister pushed back, then the US responded with, "Oh well, then we will simply put a tariff on all financial transactions between the US and Canada". So Canada caved.
Many Americans that lived here went into a panic, because they didn't realize that they still had to file in the US. Hence the flood of US Citizenship renunciations. Of course, then Obama responded by raising the price of renunciations... For those that had never filed, they were looking at tens of thousands in fees, back taxes and renunciation processing fees to get that cleared up.
In other countries, they responded by kicking out their American account holders. If you were a US expat in Germany, for instance, you would have a rough time getting a local bank account there.
But, I derail...
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