 A person who enjoys BOTC status by virtue of parentage but who was not born in the BVI is not necessarily a belonger.A person born or resident in the BVI who does not fall into any of the above categories is not considered a belonger or a BOTC and is regarded as a temporary immigrant, although belongership and BOTC can be acquired through marriage or application, as described below.Non-belonger women married to men who are belongers by birth, immediate descent,
or naturalisation, or who received a belonger certificate between 1967 and 2001, also become belongers, unless they were divorced before 2001.