What compact privilege is
A multistate license from your primary state of residence carries compact privilege — the authority to practice in other compact states without licensing separately in each. It only exists between states that are live in the Nurse Licensure Compact.
Why privilege does not reach U.S. Virgin Islands
Since U.S. Virgin Islands is not yet live in the compact, there is no U.S. Virgin Islands compact privilege to grant. See non-compact states and working in a non-compact state with a compact license.
The law that governs this in U.S. Virgin Islands
Working in U.S. Virgin Islands on another state’s license is practice in U.S. Virgin Islands, so it is U.S. Virgin Islands’s own nurse practice act that defines what you may do and the Virgin Islands Board of Nurse Licensure that applies it. 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U.S. Virgin Islands has adopted the compact, but we have not confirmed which section of its code carries it, so we do not cite one — several states replaced an earlier compact and the superseded sections still circulate.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.
Confirm before you rely on it
License status changes and the compact evolves. Confirm your own license type on Nursys and check U.S. Virgin Islands’s current rules with the Virgin Islands Board of Nurse Licensure. CompactStates.com is an independent guide, not a licensing authority.
Why compact privilege does not reach U.S. Virgin Islands
U.S. Virgin Islands has enacted the compact (December 6, 2021) but has not finished implementing it, so privilege is not active here yet. Either way the practical answer for working in U.S. Virgin Islands on a license from another state is the same today: a multistate license from another state does not authorize it, and you generally need a U.S. Virgin Islands license from the Virgin Islands Board of Nurse Licensure. Re-check before a start date rather than assuming — this is precisely the fact that changes.