The United States Virgin Islands, officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of Caribbean islands and a territory of the United States.

This collection of islands did not become a part of the United States until their formal transfer from Denmark on March 31, 1917.

In 1917 the United States purchased the three islands for $25 million and the Virgin Islands became an unincorporated territory of the United States. The treaty ...

U.S. citizenship was conferred on U.S. Virgin Islanders in 1927. Federal authority over the new U.S. territory was placed in the Department of the Interior in ...

21 авг. 2019 г. · The two powers negotiated over the three islands for more than 50 years before finally transferring power in 1917.

3 дня назад · The government is organized under the Organic Act of the Virgin Islands, passed by the US Congress in 1936 and amended in 1954 and subsequently.

After annexation and before February 25, 1927 persons born to two US nationals in the Virgin Islands acquired non-citizen US nationality.

This territory of the United States was a territory of Denmark from the 1600s until 1917. The United States Virgin Islands, St. Croix, St. John, ...

US Territories. The islands remained under Danish rule until 1917, when the United States purchased them for $25 million in gold in an effort to improve ...