Legal decision
Fitisemanu v. United States Tenth Circuit ruling, 2021
A federal appeals court ruled that American Samoans are not entitled to birthright US citizenship, a decision the territorial government itself had argued for.
What happened
On 27 December 2021, the Tenth Circuit ruled that birthright citizenship does not extend to American Samoa.[1]
Sources for this page
Each number marks a specific claim. Notes give the source, its locator and how it relates to the claim.
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Claim: The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on 27 December 2021 that people born in American Samoa are not entitled to birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment; the US Supreme Court denied certiorari on 17 October 2022, leaving American Samoans' status as US nationals (rather than citizens) unchanged.
- Fitisemanu v. United States (Wikipedia) link, Tenth Circuit ruling and certiorari denial section. Source record