An Act To confer United States citizenship upon certain inhabitants of the Virgin
Islands and to extend the naturalization laws thereto.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That the following persons and their
children born subsequent to January 17, 1917, are hereby declared to be citizens of
the United States:

 (a) All former Danish citizens who, on January 17, 1917, resided in the Virgin
Islands of the United States, and are now residing in those islands or in the United
States or Porto Rico, 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;

 (b) All natives of the Virgin Islands of the United States who, on January 17,
1917, resided in those islands, and are now residing in those islands or in the United
States or Porto Rico, and who are not citizens or subjects of any foreign country; and

 (c) All natives of the Virgin Islands of the United States who, on January 17,
 1917, resided in the United States, and are now residing in the Virgin Islands of the
 United States, and who are not citizens or subjects of any foreign country.

 SEC. 2. The following persons, if not ineligible to citizenship, may, upon petition
filed within one year after the effective date of this Act, and upon full and complete
compliance with all other provisions of the naturalization laws, be naturalized without
making a declaration of intention:

 (a) All natives of the Virgin Islands of the United States who, on January 17,
 1917, resided in those islands or in the United States, and who are now residing in
 those islands or in the United States or Porto Rico, and who are citizens or subjects of
 any foreign country;

 (b) All natives of the Virgin Islands of the United States who, on January 17,
 1917, resided in the United States, and are now residing in the United States or Porto
 Rico, and who are not citizens or subjects of any foreign country; and

 (c) Excepts as otherwise provided in this section or in section 1, all persons
 who, on January 17, 1917, resided in the Virgin Islands of the United States, and are
 now residing in those islands, and who are not citizens of the United States.

 SEC. 3. All persons born in the Virgin Islands of the United States on or after
 January 17, 1917 (whether before, or after the effective date of this Act), and subject to
 the jurisdiction of the United States, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United
 States.