What is the difference between a US citizen and a Non-citizen national from American Samoa?

Answer 1

What is the difference between citizenship and nationality? Several decisions of US courts can help answer the question:

All citizens of the United States are also nationals. However, some nationals are not citizens. Traditionally, only persons born in US territories were non-citizen nationals.

Nationality and citizenship are not entirely synonymous. One can be a US national and yet not be a citizen. The distinction has little practical impact today, however, for the only remaining non-citizen nationals are residents of American Samoa and Swains Island.

A person also may become a US national (or lose his or her status as a national) under terms outlined by Congress on those rare occasions when the US acquires or relinquishes an outlying territory.

Inhabitants of the Philippine Islands under the Commonwealth became US nationals when the islands were ceded to the US by Spain, but they became aliens (non-Americans) upon the proclamation of Philippine independence in July 1946.

Answer 2

Citizens are born in US or have gone through immigration to become a citizen. They live in USA.

A Non-citizen National is usually born in an out lying area like Samoa but swears allegiance to USA. Samoa is not a state so you are not a citizen when born, thus they are non-citizen nationals. It required that you live in US to become citizen, so Samoans would have to move to US to become citizens.

Answer 3

One is a citizen of free country the other a second class citizen of an occupied country