Residents of American Samoa who normally apply for their US visas at the US Embassy in Samoa will have to go to New Zealand or Fiji to get their documents over the next three months.
A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 28,893 visitors to National Park of American Samoa in 2016 spent $1,689,300 in communities near the park. That spending supported 21 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $2,070,200.