Well, you should.
And the world isn't quite as big as it was in the days where messages had to be sent by a wind powered ship - or even sent by means of a rotary telephone.
A company in Germany could easily contract to sell your debt to an American collection agency. Establishing validity would be delicate, but if the amount owed was large enough, they might go to the trouble.
There is a lack of information here that makes a definitive answer difficult. Is it a government agency in Germany? A large corporation? A bar bill in Pottsdam? An ex-military roommate still living there?
And how much? $500 or less? Over $5,000?
The only advice I can give - based on all that - is that you should pay any debt you incurred, and not rely on distance. Distance may not matter any more.
The Us debt to Germany is 43.3 Billion Dollars.
They agreed because it had put all the blame for the war on Germany and it also made them pay for the war debt.
u.s needs to get good insurance to cover its debt.
Germany had to pay all the repirations for the war The US' economy became dependent on Japan The US was in debt because of all of the money that Europe burrowed from the US Germany had to burow money from the US to help pay debts
No the US forgave them the debt.
yes the debt still exists.you can probably go back, but they may never let you leave again until you pay it off. I'm in about same boat. 53000 in student loans to pay off.
The current US debt as of June, 2013 is 1$6,787,451,118,147 and there are just over 7 billion people in the world. So if we divided the debt by 7 billion the amount each would pay is $2398.21.
yes
You will have to pay the debt + interest on your return to the US assuming the debt collectors have not chased you down in India already.
No one person has enough money to pay off the US federal debt (though there was a joke to that effect about Nelson Rockefeller, back in the early 70s).
The U.S is aproximently $13,048,885,524,238.38.in debt and it would take Samantha 400 years to pay it back to BenitoRead more: How much money does the US owe
The United States of America currently has approx. 77 trillion dollars worth of assets and 113 trillion in debt that is including all the money in reserve. so no the Us does not have enough money in reserve to pay out its debt.