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Kevin and Jessica Cellura had just 48 hours in December to make an enormous family decision.

The couple, who both work as teachers, had to decide if they should take a job offer to teach in Morocco and leave Asheville, North Carolina, with their two youngest children.

But the Celluras say their decision was made easier by the presidential election results just weeks earlier.

“We will get away from the chaos … I feel like the America as we knew it growing up is slipping away pretty fast,” Jessica Cellura told CNN.

The Celluras are part of a growing stampede of Americans moving or making serious efforts to move abroad — or to obtain the citizenship rights that would allow them to do so.

Tax lawyers and immigration advisers told CNN they have seen an uptick in request

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