From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   >On Monday, June 23, 2014 1:27:25 AM UTC-4, Stephen Sprunk wrote:   
      
   >>Anyone born in the US is a US national.  Those born _in a State_ get US   
   >>citizenship as well.  Those not born in a State may get citizenship as   
   >>well if an Act of Congress specifically grants it to them, but it   
   >>doesn't happen by default like nationality does.  (Those born outside   
   >>the US to a US citizen or non-citizen national also inherit the same   
   >>status by law, with certain exceptions.)   
      
   >So, can someone from Samoa freely move to the US mainland, or do they   
   >have to be admitted under an immigration quota?  (I thought Puerto   
   >Ricans can come and go as they please).   
      
   >Once someone from Samoa comes to the US, do they have to formally apply   
   >for citizenship or do they get it automatically upon establishing   
   >residence?  Isn't that how Puerto Ricans get it?   
      
   US nationals from American Samoa are free to live and work anywhere in   
   the United States without immigrating. They travel internationally on   
   US passports. They don't pay federal income taxes on their Samoan income.   
      
   To become US citizens, they would be required to naturalize.   
      
   Puerto Ricans are US citizens at birth.   
      
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