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AARO: ASSOCIATION OF AMERICANS RESIDENT OVERSEAS, was founded in Paris in 1973 as a not-for-profit, non-partisan, public service organization representing United States citizens living abroad. AARO’s mission is to seek fair and equal treatment from the U.S. government for Americans living and working abroad; to inform AARO members of issues affecting them; and to build awareness in the United States of the role played by Americans overseas.

 

ACA: AMERICAN CITIZENS ABROAD, was founded in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1978 and now has members living in more than 95 countries. ACA is a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization working to protect and promote the welfare, rights and benefits of American citizens living outside the United States. It also aims to assist the U.S. government in developing cohesive national policies dealing with the role, status, needs, obligations and rights of Americans abroad.


 

FAWCO: FEDERATION OF AMERICAN WOMEN’S CLUBS OVERSEAS, is a non-partisan not-for-profit organization founded in 1931, currently comprising 78 member associations in 38 countries worldwide. The oldest and largest organization representing private-sector Americans abroad, it is incorporated in the State of New York, and is an approved Non-Governmental Organization with special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.  It has been particularly active in the fields of citizenship rights and voting from overseas.