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Is Your Child Eligible for British Citizenship? (Part 2)

In the last blog post entitled ‘Is Your Child Eligible for British Citizenship?’ we explored whether a child born in the UK can qualify as a British citizen and the routes available to register a child as...

British citizen children and entry clearance

In two recent cases, the Upper Tribunal has considered the relevance and weight to be accorded to having a British citizen child in: (i) entry clearance and (ii) deportation cases. The first will be outlined here,...

Good Character and Breach of Immigration Laws

One of the requirements in order to register or naturalise as a British Citizen is to be of ‘good character’. This applies to anyone over the age of 10 at the date of application.  This requirement...

Good character - what has changed?

The British Nationality Act 1981 requires any person who is over the age of 10 who wishes to register or naturalise as a British Citizen to be of ‘good character’. This is not defined in the Act, but Home...

When is a child born in the UK to EU national parents British?

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...

Appeals against deprivation of British citizenship

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...

New nationality provisions in the Immigration Act 2014

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...