Originally Posted by
JBord
Ok, that makes sense. There does seem to be a difference in the U.S. though. But I looked it up, and you're right that for US passport purposes, both citizen and national would be "USA". Thanks for clarifying, I clearly didn't provide a good legal definition.
While all US citizens are US nationals, some US nationals are not US citizens. But the latter category of US nationals without US citizenship is a very small number of US nationals -- and that very small minority of US nationals mostly cover some of those with roots in the Pacific.