Section 17. Aliens

Financial benefits payable under this chapter to aliens
  not residents or about to become nonresidents of the  United  States  or
  Canada  shall  be  in  the same amount as provided for residents, except
  that dependents in any foreign country shall  be  limited  to  surviving
  spouse  and  child  or  children, or, if there be no surviving spouse or
  child or children, to the surviving father or mother whom the  volunteer
  firefighter has supported, either wholly or in part, for a period of one
  year prior to the date of the injury.