- Victim of brutal domestic abuse loses appeal against deprivation of British citizenship
- Over 1,000 decisions made to strip British citizenship since 2012, new figures show
- Podcast: when can the Home Secretary take your citizenship away?
- Stripping people of British citizenship without telling them is definitely illegal – for now
- British citizenship can be taken away if criminal offending not disclosed
Nationality
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Guide to naturalisation as a British citizen
8% of applications for naturalisation as a British citizens are rejected by the Home Office, without the fee being returned. These guides aim to inform people wishing to become British of common pitfalls in the process.
Naturalising as a British citizen: the lawful residence requirement
24th September 2018
New ebook now available: Naturalising as a British citizen
19th October 2017
Home Office nationality guidance
- Guidance on how to consider an application to naturalise or register as a British citizen.
- Cross-cutting and unusual topics common to all types of British nationality (see below) such as deprivation, adoption, domicile, surrogacy and more.
- Quick walk through of the 6 different types of British nationality
- Checks whether you might automatically have acquired British nationality
EU citizens and British citizenship
Information for EU citizens considering applying for British citizenship
Good character
An applicant for naturalisation as a British citizen must prove they are "of good character". But what does this mean? In this eposts we explore different aspects of what lawyers call the "good character test".
Good character citizenship criteria quietly tightened up
8th January 2015
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Overturning a citizenship refusal based on character concerns is very difficult
Deciding whether someone is of good character in the context of a citizenship application is up to the Home Office. Getting that decision overturned in the courts is likely to be very difficult. This is what we learn from the Court of Appeal’s decis ...
7th April 2022How the Chagossians won the right to register as British
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 ...
4th April 2022Home Office not required to help work out whether a child is British
Is the Home Office under a duty to provide information establishing a child’s nationality? This is the question considered by the Inner House of the Court of Session in AS v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] CSIH 16. Unfortunately, t ...
22nd March 2022Victim of brutal domestic abuse loses appeal against deprivation of British citizenship
A mother of three British children has lost her appeal against the decision of Amber Rudd to take away her British citizenship in 2017. The judgment of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) makes for very grim reading. The woman, anonym ...
10th March 2022Nobody has been refused citizenship for lack of CSI
Regular readers will remember the problems caused by Comprehensive Sickness Insurance, or CSI. Essentially, certain EU citizens in the UK pre-Brexit were expected to have private health insurance. If they didn’t, it can still cause them legal pr ...
4th February 2022Supreme Court upholds government’s right to set child citizenship fees as it chooses
The Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge to the level at which the government has set the fees for children to register as British citizens. The court held that the government has been authorised by Parliament to set the level of the fees as it cho ...
2nd February 2022