Tonga’s Immigration Department has acknowledged it does not track how many Tongan nationals have overstayed visas in the United States, been deported, or detained by American authorities — even as Washington imposes sweeping new restrictions that directly target Tongan travellers.
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Saturday 14 February 2026
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Thursday 1 December 2016
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BYU (Brigham Young University) football fans are offering their sympathies to the family of Reno Mahe whose 3 year-old daughter Elsie Mahe passed away on Tuesday morning at a Utah hospital after accidentally choking.
Sunday 6 April 2014
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Nuku‘alofa, Tonga
The removal of a Tongan girl by deception from her guardian in Tongatapu, apparently with the assistance of a US Embassy staffer from Fiji and the Tonga Police on 8 March 2013, has come under the scrutiny of a Cabinet Investigative Committee, headed by the Minister of Police, Hon. Siosifa Tu‘utafaiva.


