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Government of the United States Virgin Islands (6 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Government of insular areas of the United States" This category contains only the following page.
In the law of the United States, an insular area is a U.S.-associated jurisdiction that is not part of a U.S. state or the District of Columbia.This includes fourteen U.S. territories administered under U.S. sovereignty, as well as three sovereign states each with a Compact of Free Association with the United States.
The Insular Government of the Philippine Islands [6] (Spanish: Gobierno Insular de las Islas Filipinas [7]) was an unincorporated territory of the United States that was established on April 11, 1899 upon ratification of the 1898 Treaty of Paris. [8] It was reorganized in 1935 in preparation for later independence.
Commonwealth is a term used by two unincorporated territories of the United States in their full official names, which are the Northern Mariana Islands, whose full name is Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Puerto Rico, which is named Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in English and Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico in Spanish, translating to "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico."
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The Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) is a unit of the United States Department of the Interior that oversees federal administration of several United States insular areas.It is the successor to the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War Department, which administered certain territories from 1902 to 1939, and the Office of Territorial Affairs (formerly the Division of Territories and Island ...
Statehood would grant island residents full voting rights at the federal level and 2 state senators, like each US state has. In 1992, President George H. W. Bush issued a Memorandum to heads of Executive Departments and Agencies establishing the administrative relationship between the Federal Government and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Insular Southeast Asia; Insular areas of the United States Insular Cases, a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions in 1901, about the status of U.S. territories acquired in the Spanish–American War; Bureau of Insular Affairs, a unit of the U.S. government's War Department which administered certain insular areas from 1902 to 1939