[alexander_busek]

Those people are American Citizens.

No, they are not U.S. citizens.

They are only U.S. nationals.

Regards,

[alexander_busek]

"The Covenant was fully implemented November 3, 1986, pursuant to Presidential Proclamation no. 5564, which conferred United States citizenship on legally qualified CNMI [Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands] residents."

-Wikipedia

So it looks like I was wrong, and natives of Saipan are indeed U.S. citizens.

Regards,

[KC_Lion]

Yes they are American Citizens.

Samoans are U.S. Nationals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_nationality_law#Birth_within_the_United_States

http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/86756.pdf