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Samoa 14-Day Business Pass

American SamoaShort stays and visits

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For the relevant traveller scope, is a visa, electronic authorisation, visa on arrival or no advance visa normally required?

ASAC 41.1007 ("Entry permits") provides for a "14-day pass" at $10.00 per person per trip, available only to citizens of the Independent State of Samoa with a registered business in Samoa who travel to American Samoa for a business purpose. The pass sits in the schedule of fees charged for an entry permit and other authorisation or service to facilitate entry into American Samoa; subsection (c)(7) was amended by Rule 2023-0005, eff 10 Apr 2023. The official source does not name the officer who issues the pass.

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Limits of the record
  • Issuing officer, application form and decision criteria are not stated. This pass is a different instrument from the Entry Permit Waiver Program at ASAC 41.1102(c), under which Samoa citizens may travel for stays up to ten days without an Entry Permit for a $10 processing fee, capped at four hundred Samoa citizens per month; the source keeps the two regimes separate and does not say how they interact.
  • ASAC 41.1007(c)(7)
    (7) 14-day pass - $10.00 per person per trip; available only to citizens of the Independent State of Samoa with a registered business in Samoa, who travels to American Samoa for a business purpose. Must have a valid travel document, roundtrip ticket, local sponsor, and clearances from the District Court of American Samoa and the American Samoa Medical Center business office.
  • ASAC 41.1007(c) (chapeau)
    (c) The following fees shall be charged for an entry permit and other authorization or service to facilitate entry in to American Samoa:
  • ASAC 41.1007 (History note)
    History: Rule 3-86, eff 7 Dec 86; amd 2003, eff 1 Apr 2003; amd 2010, eff 3 May 2010; amd Rule 2023 -0005, eff Apr 10, 2023.

What short-visit purposes does this route cover?

The pass is available only to a citizen of the Independent State of Samoa "with a registered business in Samoa, who travels to American Samoa for a business purpose". The source states the purpose as "a business purpose" and neither defines it nor lists the activities permitted or forbidden.

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Limits of the record
  • "Business purpose" is undefined and no activity list is given for this pass. The permitted/prohibited activity lists at ASAC 41.1103 and 41.1104 apply to the Entry Permit Waiver Program, not to the 14-day pass.
  • ASAC 41.1007(c)(7)
    (7) 14-day pass - $10.00 per person per trip; available only to citizens of the Independent State of Samoa with a registered business in Samoa, who travels to American Samoa for a business purpose. Must have a valid travel document, roundtrip ticket, local sponsor, and clearances from the District Court of American Samoa and the American Samoa Medical Center business office.
  • ASAC 41.1007(c) (chapeau)
    (c) The following fees shall be charged for an entry permit and other authorization or service to facilitate entry in to American Samoa:

What maximum stay, rolling-period rule, validity and entry rules apply?

The code calls the item a "14-day pass" and charges $10.00 per person per trip, but it does not state a maximum stay, validity period or extension for the pass. The grant of up to 30 days (with one 30-day extension) in the same section is tied to subsections (a), (b) and (c)(1) to (c)(5), which do not include this pass.

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Limits of the record
  • The figure of 14 days comes from the item's own designation inside the fee schedule, not from a stated grant of a period of stay; recorded here as the code's label, not as an independently sourced duration. Do not merge it with the Entry Permit Waiver Program at ASAC 41.1102(c), which is a separate ten-day regime for Samoa citizens with its own $10 processing fee and a monthly cap of four hundred travellers.
  • ASAC 41.1007(c)(7)
    (7) 14-day pass - $10.00 per person per trip; available only to citizens of the Independent State of Samoa with a registered business in Samoa, who travels to American Samoa for a business purpose. Must have a valid travel document, roundtrip ticket, local sponsor, and clearances from the District Court of American Samoa and the American Samoa Medical Center business office.
  • ASAC 41.1007(d)
    (d) Upon satisfactory showing of compliance with the requirements of subsections (a), (b) and (c)(1) to (c)(5) of this section, the Attorney General or his designee, or the chief immigration officer may grant up to 30 days to visit American Samoa. A visitor granted a 30-day permit may apply for only one extension of 30 days; upon expiration of the extension, the visitor shall depart American Samoa immediately. The chief immigration officer shall report monthly the number of permits granted and receipt of fees. History: Rule 3-86, eff 7 Dec 86; amd 2003, eff 1 Apr 2003; amd 2010, eff 3 May 2010; amd Rule 2023 -0005, eff Apr 10, 2023.
  • ASAC 41.1102(c)
    Under the American Samoa Entry Permit Waiver Program, Samoa citizens may travel to American Samoa for stays up to ten days without obtaining an Entry Permit because of American Samoa’s close familial, cultural, linguistic and historical ties with Samoa, and in order for Samoa to reciprocate and waive Entry Permits or Visas for non-citizen U.S. Nationals traveling to Samoa. There is a $10 processing fee for an entry permit waiver for a Samoa citizen. A Samoa citizen who does not have a passport may travel to American Samoa on a valid document of identity.
  • ASAC 41.1102 (History note)
    History: Rule 2023-0012, eff 19 October 2023; Rule 2024-0015, eff 12 Aug 2024.

What important funds, accommodation, invitation, insurance, onward-travel or passport evidence may be required?

The traveller must have a valid travel document, a roundtrip ticket, a local sponsor, and clearances from the District Court of American Samoa and the American Samoa Medical Center business office. Under the general rule at ASAC 41.0511, application to enter is made in person to an immigration officer at a port of entry, where the alien must present whatever documents are required and satisfy the officer that he or she is not subject to exclusion.

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Limits of the record
  • The source does not say which of these items are filed in advance and which are produced at the port of entry, how the "local sponsor" is evidenced, or whether the clearances have a validity window.
  • ASAC 41.1007(c)(7)
    (7) 14-day pass - $10.00 per person per trip; available only to citizens of the Independent State of Samoa with a registered business in Samoa, who travels to American Samoa for a business purpose. Must have a valid travel document, roundtrip ticket, local sponsor, and clearances from the District Court of American Samoa and the American Samoa Medical Center business office.
  • ASAC 41.0511(a)
    (a) General. Application to enter American Samoa shall be made in person to an immigration officer at a port of entry at a time when an immigration officer at the port is open for inspection.
  • ASAC 41.0511(d) and (d)(1)
    (d) Qualifications for Aliens. The following general qualifications and requirements shall be met by each alien seeking to enter American Samoa for permanent, indefinite, or temporary stay, and regardless of the purpose for which he/she seeks to enter: (1) He/she shall present whatever documents are required and shall establish to the satisfaction of the immigration officer that he/she is not subject to exclusion under the Act and is entitled under all of the applicable provisions of the immigration laws and this title to enter American Samoa.
  • ASAC 41.1007 (History note)
    History: Rule 3-86, eff 7 Dec 86; amd 2003, eff 1 Apr 2003; amd 2010, eff 3 May 2010; amd Rule 2023 -0005, eff Apr 10, 2023.

Where/how is permission obtained when required, and under what important circumstances can a stay be extended or changed?

The source fixes the fee at $10.00 per person per trip and the conditions attaching to the pass (Samoa citizenship, a registered business in Samoa, a business purpose, valid travel document, round-trip ticket, local sponsor, and clearances from the District Court of American Samoa and the American Samoa Medical Center business office). ASAC 41.1010 lets the Attorney General waive fees for good reason in a written waiver stating the reason. The official source does not state an application office, form, filing deadline, decision-maker or extension procedure for the pass.

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Limits of the record
  • The sponsor-filing procedure at ASAC 41.1007(a) - a sponsor providing the required items to the Immigration Office at least three business days before entry - is written for the thirty-day entry permit; the source does not state that it applies to the 14-day pass, and reading it across would be an inference. No extension provision exists for this pass in the source: the "only one extension of 30 days" at ASAC 41.1007(d) is written for a visitor granted a 30-day permit. The wording "per person per trip" is a fee basis and is not stated to be a rule on repeat entries.
  • ASAC 41.1007(c)(7)
    (7) 14-day pass - $10.00 per person per trip; available only to citizens of the Independent State of Samoa with a registered business in Samoa, who travels to American Samoa for a business purpose. Must have a valid travel document, roundtrip ticket, local sponsor, and clearances from the District Court of American Samoa and the American Samoa Medical Center business office.
  • ASAC 41.1007(c) (chapeau)
    (c) The following fees shall be charged for an entry permit and other authorization or service to facilitate entry in to American Samoa:
  • ASAC 41.1010 (Waiver of Fees)
    The fees imposed in this title of immigration rules may be waived at the discretion of the Attorney General for good reason. Waiver of a fee by the Attorney General shall in writing setting forth the
  • ASAC 41.1007 (History note)
    History: Rule 3-86, eff 7 Dec 86; amd 2003, eff 1 Apr 2003; amd 2010, eff 3 May 2010; amd Rule 2023 -0005, eff Apr 10, 2023.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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