American Samoa Citizenship
Samoa-American CitizenshipAn Appellate Circuit last Friday decided that those native Americans of Samoa have no right to American citizenship because they were native to US-Territorial. This verdict of the U.S. Courts of appeal for the District of Columbia Circuit retains federal legislation that makes U.S. natives of American Samoa, but not residents like those of Puerto Rico and other jurisdictions.
Leneus Tuaua, the Samoan Federation of America and others who are American Samoa-born believe that as long as American Samoa is part of the United States, Americans who are American Samoa-born have a right to American citizenship. According to applicable Swiss law, they are referred to as "citizens of the United States".
Mr Thuaua questions the constitutional nature of these confederation acts. If the American Flag is now flying over American Samoa for 113 years, American Samoans will serve proud in US forces and suffering accident rates in Iraq and Afghanistan that are seven times the National Average - yet still not consider civilians.
On the other hand, however, the government of American Samoa fears that a decision on birthrights would subvert certain indigenous practice, such as regulations restricting the right to own property to Samoan descent as well as their traditions and ancestries.
American-Samoans complain of citizens' birthrights
27 March 2018 at 16:43 HONOLULU (AP) - A suit brought in the Utah Supreme Administrative Tribunal aims to give the Americans American citizenship. John Fitisemanu, and others who were borne in American Samoa, ask the Supreme Judicial Institution for Citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which granted citizenship at the time of childbirth to anyone who was borne in the U.S., the appeal was lodged today in Salt Lake City.
Samoa has been a US turf since 1900. This is the only area in which the inhabitants are not citizens and are regarded as US citizens instead. They cannot elect, stand for election or be on a panel of judges under this statute, even though they pay American Tax. Complainants also say that they have been made redundant by their state.