Wife, who is a naturalized American wasn’t happy with the passport news and so I made the call to the IRS. I happened to be in Leticia, Colombia at the time and I jovially opened up with “well, since I’m calling you from the middle of the Amazon, it just goes to show you that there’s no escaping the IRS!” It was good for a chuckle and after 15 minutes or so we set up a payment plan to be settled over the next 6 years. I was polite on the phone and they knocked off 90k in penalties saying “I’d never been delinquent before” so that was nice. In the end, since i bought corn with the money, it’s been a win and my wife is relieved our passports are no longer on the line.