Author: Alexander Finch

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Alexander Finch

Alexander Finch is a Senior Associate at Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law where he works with a range of private and business clients. Alexander has a particular interest in British nationality and ancestry claims, discretionary applications and family-based migration.

On 14 October 2022 the Home Office released a second iteration of their caseworker guidance for handling applications to register as a British citizen in special circumstances (section 4L, inserted by the Nationality Act Borders Act 2022). The caseworking scenarios from the first version are now supplemented by fresh examples,...

25th January 2023
BY Alexander Finch

A raft of changes to nationality law came into force a few weeks ago. I covered the changes at a high level on my own firm’s website (shameless plug), but wanted to write in more depth about the new section 4L, which opens up tantalising possibilities for securing British citizenship...

25th July 2022
BY Alexander Finch

When the Nationality and Borders Bill returns to the House of Lords later today, it will contain a registration provision allowing direct descendants of those born on the Chagos Islands to become British nationals. The Chagossians will be entitled to British overseas territories citizenship (BOTC) and, if they want it,...

4th April 2022
BY Alexander Finch
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