- Tribunal: nullified nullification no barrier to deprivation of British citizenship
- Shamima Begum loses statelessness argument against citizenship deprivation
- National security court slams immigration lawyers
- Government strikes back in court battle over depriving terror suspects of British citizenship
- Student facing death penalty for ISIS membership stripped of British citizenship
Home Office to issue woman with British passport after 18 year battle
Even by Home Office standards, the decision to defend the case of R (Nmai) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWHC 1139 (Admin) looks particularly pointless. The claimant had an incredibly strong case and the judge allowed the claim w ...
20th May 2020It just got more difficult for Europeans to become British citizens
The Home Office has decided to make it more difficult for European residents to become British citizens. EU citizens with settled status who apply for naturalisation may now have to provide evidence that they have been living in the UK legally, accord ...
18th May 2020Tribunal: nullified nullification no barrier to deprivation of British citizenship
Taking away people’s citizenship became a popular pastime for Home Secretary Theresa May. After decades of the power being essentially taboo, associated as it was with Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, it was resurrected with a vengeance after 201 ...
13th May 2020Fee waiver for children denied British citizenship by discredited paternity law
The Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (SI 2020 No. 294) come into force on 6 April 2020. They introduce a handful of fee tweaks, with the most significant changes being for children whose natural father is a man o ...
23rd March 2020Can spouses of British citizens naturalise after just three years’ residence in the UK?
For those forced to make successive, increasingly-expensive applications just to remain in the country that they have made their home, naturalising as a British citizen is often the final rung of a very tall ladder. Like all ladders, the key to succes ...
11th February 2020Shamima Begum loses statelessness argument against citizenship deprivation
Shamima Begum is a citizen of Bangladesh and so would not be made stateless by being stripped of her British citizenship, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission has held. The main SIAC judgment is Shamima Begum (Preliminary Issue : Substansive) [2 ...
7th February 2020