To protect collective self-determination and individual rights under Federal statutes conferring nationality on persons born and residing in the territory of American Samoa, to enable subsequent elective United States citizenship upon application of such persons residing in a State or in a territory subject to sections 301 through 308 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and for other purposes.

This bill changes how U.S. nationals who are not citizens, such as people born in American Samoa, get passports. A person who proves to the Secretary of State that they are a non-citizen national would get a passport listing them as a national but not a citizen. If that person lives in a U.S. state or in a territory covered by sections 301 through 308 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, they could instead make a written, signed request for a passport listing them as both a national and a citizen. The bill also renames the law's passport section and repeals Section 325 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which deals with naturalization of non-citizen nationals.

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Sponsors

• Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen Republican sponsor
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