Category:Jews and Judaism in insular areas of the United States




 * Insular areas

An insular area is a United States territory, that is neither a part of one of the fifty U.S. states nor the District of Columbia, the federal district of the United States. The term insular possession is also sometimes used. Native-born Inhabitants of unincorporated territories are not constitutionally entitled to United States citizenship, under the Citizenship Clause. However, Congress has extended citizenship rights to all inhabited territories except American Samoa, and these citizens may vote and run for office in any U.S. jurisdiction in which they are residents. The people of American Samoa are U.S. nationals, but not U.S. citizens; they are free to move around and seek employment within the whole United States without immigration restrictions, but cannot vote or hold office outside of American Samoa.


 * Present inhabited unincorporated territories:
 * 1) American Samoa
 * 2) Guam
 * 3) Northern Mariana Islands
 * 4) Puerto Rico
 * 5) U.S. Virgin Islands


 * Past organized incorporated territories are those territories of the United States that are both incorporated (part of the United States proper) and organized (having an organized government authorized by an Organic Act passed by the U.S. Congress usually consisting of a territorial legislature, territorial governor, and a basic judicial system). Through most of U.S. history, regions that were admitted as U.S. states were, prior to admission, territories of this kind.