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American Samoa visa requirements

Current entry categories for 199 passport nationalities, paired with official evidence as it is reviewed.

Access data checked August 24, 202615 official sources collected
Visa-free1ETA47Visa required151
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199 passports

Visa-free

1

ETA

47

Visa required

151
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  1. Current official routeETA

    American Samoa: named Entry Permit Waiver Program passports

    The current American Samoa Administrative Code names these citizenships for a 30-day Entry Permit Waiver Program route, but requires prior approved OK-to-Board authorization.

    • The traveler must obtain the territorial OK-to-Board authorization at least three business days before travel; the waiver is therefore normalized as ETA, not visa-free.
    • The program permits tourism and specified business only for up to 30 days; it requires a machine-readable passport, onward travel, lodging/host confirmation, fee, and admissibility.
    • Citizenship by investment is excluded. Work, credit study, residence, commercial-vessel boarding, diplomatic/official, special-document and other routes are excluded.
    • The Attorney General may modify the list by memorandum; entry remains discretionary.
    45 passport nationalities covered

    Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Micronesia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Palau Islands, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei), United Kingdom

    Official sourcesOffice of the Secretary of American Samoa: American Samoa Administrative Code, Title 41, Chapter 11 (2024 edition)American Samoa Department of Legal Affairs: American Samoa Visitor Permits
  2. Current official routeETA

    American Samoa: Qatar U.S.-visa-waiver 30-day visitor permit

    The current American Samoa Government waiver-country list names Qatar, and its current visitor portal requires a pre-travel, emailed 30-day permit for U.S.-visa-waiver-country travelers.

    • The traveler must apply before arrival, receive the emailed permit, and present it to Immigration; the pre-travel electronic approval is normalized as ETA rather than visa-free.
    • The current route is limited to a 30-day visitor permit and remains subject to passport validity, fee, purpose, admissibility, entry and other territorial conditions.
    • Work, residence, credit study, transit, diplomatic/official, special-document, U.S.-visa-holder and individual-admission routes are excluded.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Qatar

    Official sourcesAmerican Samoa Department of Legal Affairs: American Samoa Department of Legal Affairs: Visa Waiver CountriesAmerican Samoa Department of Legal Affairs: American Samoa Department of Legal Affairs: U.S. Visa / Waiver 30-Day Visitor Permit
  3. Current official routeVisa-free

    U.S. passport holder: American Samoa, Guam and CNMI domestic/citizenship treatment

    A U.S. citizen or national travelling on a U.S. ordinary passport does not use a foreign visitor visa, ESTA, G-CNMI ETA or territorial visitor-permit route. The project has no separate U.S.-citizenship status for AS, GU and MP, so this no-visa treatment is normalized as visa_free.

    • For American Samoa, this covers the official U.S. citizen/national document route: a valid U.S. passport or equivalent specified citizenship/identity documents, confirmed return or onward travel, and the entry page's proof-of-employment or official-assignment requirement. Travellers meeting the valid-document route do not need an OK Board; its waiver process covers lost, expired or substitute documents.
    • For Guam and CNMI, federal documentary rules regulate nonimmigrant aliens. This is not a foreign visitor category, does not establish entry for a dual national travelling on another passport, and does not cover residence, work, parole, military, transit, diplomatic, special-document or final-admission cases.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    United States

    Official sourcesAmerican Samoa Department of Legal Affairs: U.S. citizen/national entry documentsAmerican Samoa Department of Legal Affairs: U.S. citizen or national OK Board guidanceU.S. Office of the Federal Register / Department of Homeland Security: 8 CFR 212.1: Documentary requirements for nonimmigrants
  4. Current official routeETA

    American Samoa: named current waiver-country online 30-day permit

    The current American Samoa Government list names this 46-code ordinary-passport cohort, including Qatar. Its current U.S. Visa/Waiver visitor service requires online application and an emailed permit before arrival; that mandatory electronic pre-travel authorization is normalized as eta.

    • Apply and obtain the emailed American Samoa visitor permit before travel; the portal states applications must be submitted online within three business days before travel.
    • The route is limited to a 30-day visitor permit, requires a qualifying passport/document, return ticket within 30 days, lodging/local-contact evidence, fee and admissibility. It is not a visa-free entry.
    • The program’s precise statutory EPWP label and country-list update mechanism, work, residence, credit study, transit, crew/commercial-vessel, diplomatic, official, special-document, third-country-document and final-admission treatment are outside this ordinary visitor mapping.
    46 passport nationalities covered

    Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Micronesia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Palau Islands, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei), United Kingdom, Qatar

    Official sourcesAmerican Samoa Department of Legal Affairs: Visa Waiver CountriesAmerican Samoa Department of Legal Affairs: U.S. Visa / Waiver 30-Day Visitor PermitOffice of the Secretary of American Samoa: American Samoa Administrative Code, Title 41, Chapter 11 (2024 edition)
  5. Current official routeETA

    American Samoa: Samoa ordinary passports, 10-day visitor permit

    The current territorial code and official portal create a Samoa-passport Entry Permit Waiver Program route requiring a pre-travel visitor permit.

    • The specific Samoa route is limited to 10 days, has a $10 fee and a monthly maximum of 400 citizens. The candidate concerns ordinary passports, not the alternative identity-document route.
    • The official portal requires online application/payment. The EPWP requires pre-travel documents and OK-to-Board authorization; work, residence, transit, special documents and final admission are excluded.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Samoa

    Official sourcesOffice of the Secretary of American Samoa: American Samoa Administrative Code, Title 41, Chapter 11 (2024 edition)American Samoa Department of Legal Affairs: American Samoa Visitor Permits
  6. Current official routeVisa-free

    U.S. ordinary passports: no foreign-visitor visa for the U.S. territories

    A U.S. citizen or national is not an alien for federal immigration law; American Samoa also gives U.S. citizens a document route rather than a foreign visitor permit.

    • This is normalized as visa_free because the destinations are territorial codes, not the sovereign United States. American Samoa’s current page specifies documentary requirements for non-resident U.S. citizens.
    • Residence, identity-document alternatives, military orders, emergency waivers, inspection and final admission are not normalized.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    United States

    Official sourcesU.S. Government Publishing Office: 8 U.S.C. 1101: Immigration and Nationality Act definitionsAmerican Samoa Department of Legal Affairs: U.S. citizen/national entry documents
  7. Current official routeVisa required

    Non-waiver ordinary passports: advance territorial visitor permit

    These ordinary-passport nationalities are absent from the current territorial visa-waiver list. American Samoa Immigration requires an approved 30-day visitor permit before travel; the non-waiver route is a sponsor-filed, in-person Immigration application, so it is normalized as visa_required rather than eVisa or arrival issuance.

    • This is an ordinary-passport short-visitor baseline. The current territorial visa-waiver list is disjoint from this exact cohort; no mainland-US ESTA or federal visa classification is imported.
    • A traveler without a valid US visa, US visa-waiver-country citizenship, or green card needs an eligible local US-citizen-or-national sponsor to file the application in person at American Samoa Immigration, pay USD 40, and provide the stated passport, return-ticket and police-clearance materials.
    • The non-waiver application must be filed in person 3–5 business days before travel; after it is processed and paid, the sponsor sends the approved permit copy to the traveler, who must hand-carry it and present it on arrival. An applicant arriving without applying may be turned away.
    • A valid US visa or green card allows a distinct online territorial 30-day-permit workflow, but it is a traveler-specific document condition and still requires an approved permit before travel; it does not change this passport-wide baseline.
    • The permit is for a visitor stay up to 30 days, with a stated possible one-time 30-day extension. Sponsor, passport-validity, onward-ticket, police-clearance, fee, purpose, discretion and final-admission conditions remain applicable.
    151 passport nationalities covered

    Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Romania, Hong Kong (SAR China), Argentina, Brazil, Barbados, The Bahamas, Mexico, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis, Uruguay, Seychelles, Antigua and Barbuda, Vatican City, Mauritius, Costa Rica, Panama, St. Lucia, Grenada, Paraguay, Ukraine, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Macao (SAR China), Dominica, Solomon Islands, El Salvador, Guatemala, Serbia, Colombia, Tonga, Tuvalu, Honduras, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kiribati, Nicaragua, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Georgia, Moldova, Venezuela, Russian Federation, Türkiye, South Africa, Timor-Leste, Belize, Ecuador, Kuwait, Maldives, Fiji, Saudi Arabia, Nauru, Kosovo, Vanuatu, Guyana, Bahrain, Jamaica, Oman, China, Papua New Guinea, Botswana, Thailand, Belarus, Bolivia, Suriname, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Lesotho, Namibia, Dominican Republic, eSwatini, Azerbaijan, Morocco, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Ghana, The Gambia, Armenia, Philippines, Tunisia, Rwanda, Zambia, Cape Verde Islands, Mongolia, Benin, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, India, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Gabon, Niger, Togo, Tajikistan, Mauritania, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Chad, Mali, Vietnam, Comoro Islands, Guinea-Bissau, Algeria, Angola, Congo (Rep.), Cambodia, Central African Republic, Haiti, Liberia, Bhutan, Burundi, Cameroon, Jordan, Laos, Turkmenistan, Egypt, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Djibouti, Lebanon, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, South Sudan, Sudan, North Korea, Palestinian Territory, Bangladesh, Somalia, Nepal, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan

    Official sourcesAmerican Samoa Department of Legal Affairs: American Samoa Department of Legal Affairs: travel and entryAmerican Samoa Department of Legal Affairs, Immigration: American Samoa Department of Legal Affairs: non-US 30-day visitor permitAmerican Samoa Department of Legal Affairs: American Samoa Department of Legal Affairs: visa-waiver countries