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Immigration Board

Senate President Tuaolo Manaia Fruean
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate last week passed in third reading the bill sponsored by Senator Soliai Tuipine Fuimaono, which would prohibit a member of the Immigration Board from acting as a sponsor. The bill also removes the provision stating, members shall serve on the board until a...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The ASG’s TALOFAPass websystem has created a lot of issues for the Immigration Office and its Board of Directors. This is according to Fanene Edda Wyberski, the chair of the Immigration Board in an interview with Samoa News. “What we know about TALOFAPass’s initial...
Talauega pictured while he was Attorney General
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While a lot of questions are being asked about the case of the Filipino woman who in 2018 was ordered by the Immigration Board (IB) to depart the territory, the new sponsor for the Filipino woman, Leuila Ioane and her husband Joe have come forward to set the record...
Fanene Edda Wyberski
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Remember the case of the Filipino woman who in 2018 was ordered by the Immigration Board to depart the territory?  Well a new incident involving the immigration board and the same woman has now surfaced. The Filipino national, Joselyn M. Intila applied for the latest...
Temporary Senate chamber
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Three Administration bills were introduced last week in the Senate along with the governor’s nomination of three new members to the American Samoa Economic Development Authority (ASEDA) board of directors. The measures have been assigned to the appropriate committees for...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A new bill Senate focuses in on Immigration with a measure that prohibits a member of the Immigration Board from acting as a sponsor of a foreigner and clarifies the terms of board members. The bill also says that any person appointed to the board while they are the...
Sen. Faamausili Mau Mau Jr
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Senator Faamausili Mau Mau Jr has questioned the authority of the Governor and the Acting Attorney General to review and approve OK Boards for persons allowed into the territory under special provision. Faamausili, a member of the Immigration Board (IB) pointed out...
[l-r] Property Management Office director Niumata Malo, Sen. Fa’amausili Mau Mau Jr and Rep. Gafatasi Afalava
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — There are many “overstayers” right now in American Samoa, declared Immigration Board member, Sen. Fa’amausili Mau Mau Jr., before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The public statement comes amid the growing number of overstayers who are discovered when they appear in...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Filipino woman who is being ordered by the Immigration Board to leave American Samoa by this Friday has written to the Board chairwoman, in response to her current sponsor's letter, dated June 6, 2018 and also addressed to the Board chairwoman. Samoa News was able to...
ASG Attorney General Talauega Eleasalo Ale [SN file photo]
Pago Pago, AMRICAN SAMOA — The forced deportation of a 7-month pregnant Filipino immigrant and her 5-year-old son has reached the office of the Philippine Consulate General in Honolulu. The Filipino national and her son were deported on March 1, 2018, on the grounds that she overstayed. This is...