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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Oregon state’s motor-voter automatic registration officials admitted last month that the DMV erroneously registered 1,259 people to vote who were not citizens and were therefore ineligible to vote. (Officials say just nine of the 1,259 actually may have voted.)
On Monday...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata has introduced a bill in the 117th Congress that would enable any U.S. National who wishes to do so to convert to U.S. citizenship through a simplified procedure with the office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The House bill,...
Washington, D.C. — Despite postponement, Congresswoman Aumua Amata confirms that the House Natural Resources Committee has reaffirmed their commitment to hold a hearing to examine the need for a streamlined citizenship choice for those individual U.S. nationals in American Samoa that want...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A Republican Hawaii state House candidate born in American Samoa has learned she's ineligible to run for office because she's not a U.S. citizen.
Sai Timoteo said she didn't realize she wasn't allowed to vote or hold office.
She's running for the Leeward Oahu seat vacated...
![Screenshot of the 2020 Census Questionnaire for the United States shows the citizenship question, with options to choose from but nothing for US Nationals — persons born in American Samoa. [photo: FS]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/citizen%20question.jpg?itok=AVDeBXTq "Screenshot of the 2020 Census Questionnaire for the United States shows the citizenship question, with options to choose from but nothing for US Nationals — persons born in American Samoa. [photo: FS]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The US Census Bureau’s planned 2020 Census Questionnaire for the United States, which includes a question regarding citizenship status, leaves out US Nationals, which is the status given to persons born in American Samoa; and some US news outlets say this is a “flaw”.
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