Samoa

Direct support — Customs Services page (Passenger Clearance > Arrival Declaration): 'When arriving in Samoa, you are required to present your passport along with your completed Arrival Declaration Card, and any other necessary documents, such as your ticket (including e-ticket), itinerary, boarding pass, and receipts of payment, when requested by a Customs officer at the Airport or Wharf.' The FAQ page confirms, answering whether a passport must be presented after immigration: 'Yes it is an obligation to provide Customs with your passport together with your arrival declaration card and any other documents such as your ticket (including e-ticket) or itinerary, boarding pass, receipts of payment, etc when required by a Customs officer at the airport/wharf.' The same page warns 'There are penalties for failing to declare prohibited/excess of restricted goods on arrival in Samoa' without detailing amounts. Background only (Customs Act 2014, supports:[]): the Act's general traveller report/present/inspection duties (ss27-35) are summarised in the normalization report, not in this user-facing text; no captured provision prints, names, or lists the fields of an Arrival Declaration Card, so the Act is context, not evidence, and this procedure rests solely on the two Customs pages. Applicability is not differentiated by nationality in any captured text; no age condition is stated for the card itself. The blank card's field list and its distribution channel (in-flight, terminal, online) remain unknown: the site's Customs Forms list (captured) contains only cargo/broker/back-office forms (e.g. CCA, IM8, broker and manifest forms), no arrival card; the page's Travellers Guide (English and Samoan versions, wp-content uploads of April 2024) exists only as images, whose text cannot be extracted offline. No captured page contains a direct filing-fee sentence for this card; fee remains unknown.

COMPARATOR CONFLICT, STATED FIRST (unresolved): carrying STRICTLY MORE THAN SAT 20,000 (or foreign-currency equivalent) in cash or negotiable bearer instruments must be reported when entering or leaving Samoa — on that, the statute and the Central Bank materials agree. They DISAGREE at exactly SAT 20,000: the Money Laundering Prevention Act 2007 s13(1) catches only 'more than $20,000', while the Central Bank's BCR page and its 2017 BCR form catch 'SAT 20,000 or more' (inclusive). The exact-threshold case is therefore unsettled between statute and form/page; no unqualified instruction is issued for it (following the Central Bank's inclusive wording is traveller prudence, not an official determination). Predicate and threshold — statute (MLP Act 2007 s13(1), Office of the Attorney General consolidation, as amended through 2018): a person who 'leaves or enters Samoa with more than $20,000, or such other amount as may be prescribed, in cash or negotiable bearer instruments (in Samoan currency or equivalent foreign currency) on the person or in the person's luggage, cargo or mail' must not leave or enter 'without first having reported the fact to the Financial Intelligence Unit'; non-compliance is an offence (penalty formulations diverge across sources and are recorded in the report, not here). Central Bank of Samoa BCR & STR Forms page (last updated 25 Nov 2024): the BCR is completed by 'Any person who leaves or enter Samoa carrying cash or negotiable bearer instruments with a combined value of SAT 20,000 or more or its equivalent in foreign currency'; it is 'a requirement under section 13 of the MLP Act 2007'. Central Bank 2017 BCR form (paper form completed by the traveller, in ink and capital letters): complete it if carrying cash or negotiable bearer instruments of a combined value of SAT 20,000 or more or its equivalent in foreign currency 'into or out of Samoa'; persons in charge of young people or people with disability complete it for those incapable; Part A ticks 'Into Samoa?' / 'Out of Samoa?' and the completed report is given to an authorised officer at the port of arrival/departure; the form's declaration line cites the 'MLP Regulations 2009' (the natural home of any prescribed different amount; not captured). Ministry of Customs page (arrival direction only, no comparator stated): 'SAT $20,000.00 (or its foreign equivalent) must be declared and a Border Currency Report must be completed on arrival.' Directions: the BCR is a true traveller-submitted procedure at BOTH entry and exit (statute 'leaves or enters'; CBS page 'leaves or enter'; form 'into or out of Samoa', port of arrival/departure); only the Customs page is arrival-worded. The generic outward-baggage inspection duty in Customs Act 2014 s33 is NOT a departure declaration card and is not treated as one. Persons and amount: no nationality condition in any captured text; the amount is denominated in Samoan tala and the foreign leg is a variable equivalent ('or its equivalent in foreign currency'), never a fixed foreign figure. No captured page contains a direct filing-fee sentence for this report; fee remains unknown.