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[CITE: 8USC1406]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
             SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONALITY AND NATURALIZATION
 
       Part I--Nationality at Birth and Collective Naturalization
 
Sec. 1406. Persons living in and born in the Virgin Islands

    (a) The following persons and their children born subsequent to 
January 17, 1917, and prior to February 25,1927, are declared to be 
citizens of the United States as of February 25, 1927:
    (1) All former Danish citizens who, on January 17, 1917, resided in 
the Virgin Islands of the United States, and were residing in those 
islands or in the United States or Puerto Rico on February 25, 1927, and 
who did not make the declaration required to preserve their Danish 
citizenship by article 6 of the treaty entered into on August 4, 1916, 
between the United States and Denmark, or who, having made such a 
declaration have heretofore renounced or may hereafter renounce it by a 
declaration before a court of record;
    (2) All natives of the Virgin Islands of the United States who, on 
January 17, 1917, resided in those islands, and were residing in those 
islands or in the United States or Puerto Rico on February 25, 1927, and 
who were not on February 25, 1927, citizens or subjects of any foreign 
country;
    (3) All natives of the Virgin Islands of the United States who, on 
January 17, 1917, resided in the United States, and were residing in 
those islands on February 25, 1927, and who were not on February 25, 
1927, citizens or subjects of any foreign country; and
    (4) All natives of the Virgin Islands of the United States who, on 
June 28, 1932, were residing in continental United States, the Virgin 
Islands of the United States, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, or any other 
insular possession or territory of the United States, and who, on June 
28, 1932, were not citizens or subjects of any foreign country, 
regardless of their place of residence on January 17, 1917.
    (b) All persons born in the Virgin Islands of the United States on 
or after January 17, 1917, and prior to February 25, 1927, and subject 
to the jurisdiction of the United States are declared to be citizens of 
the United States as of February 25, 1927; and all persons born in those 
islands on or after February 25, 1927, and subject to the jurisdiction 
of the United States, are declared to be citizens of the United States 
at birth.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 1, Sec. 306, 66 Stat. 237.)
