Author: Fahad Ansari

Fahad Ansari

Fahad Ansari

Fahad Ansari is the director and principal solicitor of Riverway Law, a niche immigration, asylum and nationality law practice. He also works as a consultant at Duncan Lewis. Fahad specialises in cases involving a national security element including citizenship deprivation, exclusion orders, passport confiscation, and deportation.

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, anonymised as “U3”, was born in the UK with British and...

10th March 2022
BY Fahad Ansari

The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) has allowed the appeals of three people who were deprived of their British citizenship following allegations that they had travelled to Syria and posed a threat to national security. The case is C3, C4 & C7 v Secretary of State for the Home Department...

22nd March 2021
BY Fahad Ansari

The UK government did not begin its deprivation of citizenship policy yesterday, when Home Secretary Sajid Javid signed an order stripping Shamima Begum of her British nationality. The deprivation of citizenship power has been increasingly used in recent years, with 104 citizens deprived of their British nationality in 2017 alone....

20th February 2019
BY Fahad Ansari
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