8 U.S.C. § 1406 — Persons living in and born in the Virgin Islands

(a) The following people, and their children born after January 17, 1917, and before February 25, 1927, are United States citizens as of February 25, 1927:
(1) Former Danish citizens who lived in the United States Virgin Islands on January 17, 1917, were living in the islands, the United States, or Puerto Rico on February 25, 1927, and did not make the declaration required by article 6 of the August 4, 1916 treaty to preserve Danish citizenship, or who made that declaration but have renounced it or later renounce it by declaration before a court of record;
(2) natives of the Virgin Islands who lived there on January 17, 1917, were living there, in the United States, or in Puerto Rico on February 25, 1927, and were not then citizens or subjects of a foreign country;
(3) natives of the Virgin Islands who lived in the United States on January 17, 1917, were living in the islands on February 25, 1927, and were not then citizens or subjects of a foreign country; and
(4) natives of the Virgin Islands who on June 28, 1932, lived in the continental United States, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, or another United States island possession or territory, and were not then citizens or subjects of a foreign country, regardless of where they lived on January 17, 1917.

(b) People born in the Virgin Islands on or after January 17, 1917, and before February 25, 1927, who were subject to United States jurisdiction, are citizens as of February 25, 1927. People born there on or after February 25, 1927, who are subject to United States jurisdiction, are citizens at birth.