Northern Mariana Islands
Palau passportEdit check
Free movement
Entry and stay only. What this covers
Source & evidence Read the original words
Official wording
Any person in the following categories may enter into, lawfully engage in occupations, and establish residence as a nonimmigrant in the United States and its territories and possessions … a naturalized citizen of Palau, who has been an actual resident there for not less than five years after attaining such naturalization and who holds a certificate of actual residence
Aevamo’s reading
8 CFR 212.1 is the regulation that imposes the visa and documentary requirement on arriving nonimmigrant aliens (chapeau) and that creates and specifies the Visa Waiver Program exemption (i), the Guam-CNMI Visa Waiver Program (paragraph (q)) and the CNMI EVS-TAP (paragraph (r)); it implements INA 212 and Pub. L. 110-229 and is the operative instrument for who may enter Guam and the CNMI without a visa.
Section 141(a) of the Palau Compact of Free Association allows Palau citizens to enter the United States and its territories and establish residence as nonimmigrants without regard to the visa-requiring grounds, so Palauan citizens enter Guam outside the visitor visa regime.
Source details
How the documents behind this regime are dated
eCFR current text fetched 2026-08-29; contains amendments through the 2024-2025 Federal Register rules (electronic travel authorization and EVS-TAP).
What this answer covers Limits & assumptions
Work and residence rights are separate from this check. This is the entry rule and the length of stay the instrument grants. It is not a decision about you: the officer at the border decides admission, and we do not evaluate the purpose of your trip, your passport's remaining validity, an onward ticket, funds, insurance or health requirements.
The rule is one instrument covering 2 places, so this answer is the same for Guam .
Informational planning, not legal or immigration advice. The source is linked so you can check our reading.