Author: Steve Valdez-Symonds

Steve Valdez-Symonds

Steve Valdez-Symonds is Refugee and Migrant Rights Programme Director at Amnesty International UK.

Briefing: Parliament never intended for children to be charged sky-high fees to register as citizens

4 September 2018 1 Comment

The British Nationality Act 1981, which took effect on 1 January 1983, introduced British citizenship into UK nationality law. In doing so, it removed the

Children, Nationality

Briefing: Parliament never intended for children to be charged sky-high fees to register as citizens

The British Nationality Act 1981, which took effect on 1 January 1983, introduced British citizenship into UK nationality law. In doing so, it removed the principle of jus soli – the principle by which citizenship is acquired by being born on the territory – from the operation of that nationality...

4th September 2018

Author: Steve Valdez-Symonds

Steve Valdez-Symonds

Briefing: Parliament never intended for children to be charged sky-high fees to register as citizens

Briefing: Parliament never intended for children to be charged sky-high fees to register as citizens

BY Steve Valdez-Symonds