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Residents for life – citizenship is another matter
By Dickson C. Igwe
The USA has decreased the number of migrants coming into the country by adopting a very aggressive deportation policy and stopping inward flows of people from many source countries. The two main methods are visa bans and strong border controls.
Skelton-Cline shocked by HoA's rationale on VI citizenship
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI- Host of Honestly Speaking, Pastor Claude O. Skelton-Cline has questioned the House of Assembly’s (HoA) reasoning for limiting access to citizenship.
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Policy change is the simple answer to the migration conundrum
By Dickson C. Igwe
In certain countries, the path to citizenship for migrants is blocked and for good reason: to protect the native population. Instead, residency and work permits allow migrants entry to work and play.
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Making Virgin Islander status meaningless
By Dickson C. Igwe
At the root of the valid concern, Ancestral Virgin Islanders are losing their God given rights, heritage, and status as multigenerational natives, is the fact that the sacred privilege of Virgin Islands citizenship, is automatic, through tenure.
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The sacred privilege of citizenship cannot be handed out willy nilly
By Dickson C. Igwe
The adoption of a national ID card was the recommendation from the previous story on migration as a means of enforcing better control of migration, and law and order in the jurisdiction.
USVI: Trump’s birthright order may now be enforced in USVI
VI CONSORTIUM
WASHINGTON D.C., USA- In a 6-3 ruling on Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to partially lift nationwide injunctions blocking President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order on birthright citizenship, allowing its enforcement in 28 states and U.S. territories not covered by ongoing lawsuits.
31 take oath to become naturalised VI citizens
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Thirty-one (31) persons have recited the Oath of Allegiance and Pledge of Loyalty to the King last week, to complete the process of becoming British Overseas Territories Citizens (BOTC) of the Virgin Islands.
Dept of Justice against birthright citizenship in US Territories
VI CONSORTIUM
WASHINGTON DC, USA- On Wednesday, September 23, 2020, lawyers for the US Department of Justice will argue that the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit should reverse Fitisemanu v. United States, a landmark ruling recognising that individuals born in US territories have the same right to citizenship as individuals born in the 50 states or the District of Columbia, Equally American, a nonprofit committed to achieving equal rights for Americans living in US territories, has announced.
32 registered as British citizens
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - 32 individuals are now British citizens after having been previously naturalised as British Overseas Territories Citizens.
Rights and Privileges a HUGE difference
By Donald E. de Castro
“Too old to be intimidated”
For years, here in The Virgin Islands, there is a continuous conversation by so many people in regards to children being born in this Territory by expatriate parents and about the length of time that so many expatriates have been here and cannot get Belongers Status. So while this conversation continues, I will list a number of Rights & Privileges to add to this conversation.
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