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Life in the UK Test - What is it and when is it required?
By Alexandra Pease - Immigration Barrister

A Life in the UK test is ordinarily required for both ILR and citizenship applications.   The Life in the UK test was introduced in 2005 for citizenship applications and 2007 for ILR applications.  The...

 plans were first introduced in 2002 by the then Home Secretary David Blunkett. You do not need to take the test if you: are under 18; are 65 or over; have passed it before, many will have already completed the...

Revised UK childhood good character test should be scrapped
By Richmond Chambers -

Campaigners say the government’s revised guidance on how the good character test is applied to children does not go far enough and still does not protect the rights of young people who have grown up in the UK...

 and wish to naturalise. Good character requirement The good character requirement applies to children aged 10 and over, as this is the age of criminal responsibility. The review of the policy comes after a...

When is a child born in the UK to EU national parents British?
By Alex Papasotiriou - Immigration Barrister

Section 1 of the British Nationality Act 1981 (the “BNA 1981”), titled “Acquisition by birth or adoption”, provides: “(1) A person born in the United Kingdom after commencement, or in a qualifying territory...

 on or after the appointed day, shall be a British citizen if at the time of the birth his father or mother is— (a) a British citizen; or (b) settled in the United Kingdom or that territory.” In...

Appeals against deprivation of British citizenship
By Alex Papasotiriou - Immigration Barrister

In an earlier blog post, we covered the scope of the Secretary of State’s statutory power to deprive an individual of their British citizenship. In this post we will explore the scope of an appeal to the First-tier...

 Tribunal against a decision to make a deprivation order (section 40A(1) of the British Nationality Act 1981). In Arusha and Demushi (deprivation of citizenship – delay) [2012] UKUT 80, the Upper...

Children born outside the UK to British mothers
By Zarina Rahman - Immigration Barrister

British nationality law has undergone several important changes in recent years, in many cases in order to reflect changes in social attitudes and to correct historic injustices. Section 4C of the British Nationality...

 Act 1981 allows children of British mothers to register as British, in circumstances where they would have automatically acquired British citizenship if women were able to pass on their nationality to...

Deprivation of British citizenship
By Alex Papasotiriou - Immigration Barrister

Who said immigration woes are reserved for the non-British? Section 40 of the British Nationality Act 1981 (“1981 Act”) affords the Secretary of State a power to deprive an individual of their British citizenship...

 on two occasions: If the Secretary of State is satisfied that deprivation is “conducive to the public good” (section 40(2)); or If the Secretary of State is satisfied that the registration or...

Campaigners call for a judicial review of £1,000+ child citizenship fees
By Richmond Chambers -

In the midst of more Brexit based confusion, the Home Office is facing a challenge in the courts over the level of fees it charges children to register as a British citizen. Critics of the current charges of...

 more than £1,000 per child, accuse the Home Office of putting a desire to make profit above their ethical responsibilities, and destroying the futures of often vulnerable children. Thousands of children...

New nationality provisions in the Immigration Act 2014
By Richmond Chambers -

Although much of the Immigration Act 2014 (‘the 2014 Act’) deliberately makes the lives of people in the UK much more difficult (including those of British citizens, not “just” migrants and...

 their families) there are some helpful provisions – in particular, new provisions enabling people born to unmarried British citizen fathers before 1 July 2006 to register as British citizens. Background As...

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