The official board
U.S. Virgin Islands nursing licensure is regulated by the Virgin Islands Board of Nurse Licensure. That is where applications, renewals, endorsement, and official forms live. Requirements and fees are board-set and change, so we point you to the official site rather than list figures that could go stale.
Official U.S. Virgin Islands licensure resources
- Verify a license: Nursys QuickConfirm (national) or the board — see our U.S. Virgin Islands verification guide.
- Apply by endorsement: through the Virgin Islands Board of Nurse Licensure — see the U.S. Virgin Islands endorsement guide.
- Renew a license: through the board — see the U.S. Virgin Islands renewal guide.
- Compact status: is U.S. Virgin Islands a compact state? See the U.S. Virgin Islands compact status page.
The law that governs this in U.S. Virgin Islands
Licensing a nurse in U.S. Virgin Islands happens under U.S. Virgin Islands’s own nurse practice act — the same act that defines what practice means here — administered by the Virgin Islands Board of Nurse Licensure. That act is Virgin Islands Board of Nurse Licensure — licensing authority and requirements.
U.S. Virgin Islands has adopted the compact, but we have not confirmed which section of its code carries it, so we do not cite one — several states replaced an earlier compact and the superseded sections still circulate. The practice act above is the citation we have read.
What U.S. Virgin Islands runs itself
Beyond the national systems, Virgin Islands Board of Nurse Licensure publishes its own primary-source lookup — VIBNL License Verification Portal (and Nursys Quick Confirm). Where a board runs its own, that is the record the board itself works from, which can matter when a national system and a board disagree or lag. How U.S. Virgin Islands’s route actually behaves, including what an empty result means there, is on verifying a U.S. Virgin Islands license.
Official vs independent
The Virgin Islands Board of Nurse Licensure and Nursys are the authorities — they make decisions and hold the records. CompactStates.com explains how U.S. Virgin Islands licensure works and gets you to those sources quickly. We never charge for or monetize official board or Nursys links.
What the Virgin Islands Board of Nurse Licensure controls
U.S. Virgin Islands has enacted the compact but this board has not finished implementing it, so today it does exactly what a non-compact board does: it issues U.S. Virgin Islands licenses to U.S. Virgin Islands nurses, and nobody practices here on another state’s license. That will change when the board announces an implementation date.
Its authority comes from Virgin Islands Board of Nurse Licensure — licensing authority and requirements. You can read the law rather than take our word for it.
The board runs its own license lookup — VIBNL License Verification Portal (and Nursys Quick Confirm) — separate from Nursys. Where the two disagree, the board’s record controls.