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Affordability Fee Waivers: Citizenship Registration for Under-18's

The fee for a British citizenship application for a child is £1,012. However, the Home Office has recently introduced fee waivers for registration citizenship applications for children under the age of 18 if they...

Nationality and Borders Act 2022: Discretionary Adult Registration and Naturalisation Requirements

The Nationality and Borders Act received Royal Assent on 28 April 2022. The Act has attracted a great deal of media attention for its reforms in a number of areas, including asylum, immigration enforcement,...

A Guide to British Citizenship Ceremonies

The final stage of becoming a British citizen is for you to attend a Home Office British Citizenship ceremony where you will be presented with a certificate of British citizenship. If you are not living in the...

British Citizenship and the EU Settlement Scheme - Section 10A of the British Nationality Act 1981

The deadline for applications under the EU Settlement Scheme passed on 30 June 2021, as discussed in our previous post here. Home Office statistics, published on 21 September 2021, showed that as of 30 June 2021...

Domicile in British Nationality Applications

‘Domicile’ is a complex concept which has been subject to a great deal of analysis by the courts and is relevant to a variety of branches of the law, from family to tax law. It is also often relevant to nationality...

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 citizenship after EU Settled Status - Good Character Guidance Updated

In May 2020, the Home Office updated their Guidance on ‘lawful residence’ in relation to EU Settled Status in its naturalisation guidance.  This is particularly problematic for EEA nationals in relation...

British Nationality Law: Britain’s Colonial Obligations to Hong Kong

The United Kingdom’s nationality law is inextricably linked to the failures of its imperial project. It is a history of active closure of itself from the peoples it colonised. Between 1949 and 1983, when the...

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...

Surinder Singh and the new EEA Regulations

Regulation 9 of the Immigration (EEA) Regulations 2016 took effect from November 2016, and sets out the criteria for when family members of British citizens can rely on the Regulations. It restricted the already...

The Rights of Family Members of Dual EEA - UK Nationals following NaturalisationThe AG’s Opinion in Lounes

The important High Court referral in Toufik Lounes, discussed here, referred the following questions to the Court of Justice: “Where a Spanish national and Union citizen: i. moves to the United Kingdom, in...

British Nationality Deprivation Appeals – Not Dead Yet

In Pirzada (Deprivation of citizenship: general principles) [2017] UKUT 196 (IAC) the Upper Tribunal appears to limit the issues in an appeal against a Home Office decision to deprive a person of their...