From: stephen@sprunk.org   
      
   On 23-Jun-14 13:16, 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).   
      
   All US nationals, including non-citizen nationals, have the right to   
   live and work anywhere in the US.   
      
   > Once someone from Samoa comes to the US,   
      
   American Samoa is part of the US, so I assume you mean to a State (or   
   DC) here?   
      
   > do they have to formally apply for citizenship or do they get it   
   > automatically upon establishing residence?   
      
   US non-citizen nationals have to apply for US citizenship if they want   
   it; it's not automatic.  They enter the process roughly at the same   
   stage as Legal Permanent Residents, though.   
      
   In fact, aside from a few screwy details, Legal Permanent Residents are   
   effectively the same thing as non-citizen nationals, and it would be   
   easier for everyone if we just combined the two statuses.   
      
   > Isn't that how Puerto Ricans get it?   
      
   Puerto Ricans now get citizenship at birth via an Act of Congress; folks   
   born in a State get citizenship at birth via the 14th Amd.   
      
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