- Three win appeals against losing British citizenship
- Shamima Begum loses case in Supreme Court
- Comment: Shamima Begum, legal aid and access to justice
- This is what the Court of Appeal decided about Shamima Begum – and what happens next
- Tribunal: nullified nullification no barrier to deprivation of British citizenship
A first look at the “New Plan for Immigration”
Today the Home Office published a new plan for immigration with the title, somehow both grandiloquent and banal, New Plan for Immigration. It is mainly concerned with asylum and people who enter the UK illegally (those two concepts being subtly mashed ...
24th March 2021Three win appeals against losing British citizenship
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 ...
22nd March 2021Sophia of Hanover and the most obscure route to British nationality of them all
British citizenship by descent is underpinned by the principle of jus sanguinis (“right of blood”). This allows citizenship to be passed down “through the blood” to the first generation of children born abroad. Subsequent gener ...
3rd March 2021Shamima Begum loses case in Supreme Court
Shamima Begum has lost her case in the Supreme Court. This means that she will not be able to return to the UK to argue her main case about whether she should or should not be deprived of her British citizenship. But her main case remains outstanding ...
26th February 2021£1,012 child citizenship fee confirmed unlawful by Court of Appeal
Upholding an earlier High Court decision, the Court of Appeal has confirmed that the Home Office’s £1,012 fee for registering children as British citizens is unlawful. The case is R (Project for the Registration of Children As British Citizens ...
19th February 2021The pathway to British citizenship for European nationals in the UK
Ever since the Brexit vote in June 2016, EU citizens in the United Kingdom have been turning their attention to applications for British citizenship. Foreign nationals who have been living in the UK for five years can apply to “naturalise” as Brit ...
18th February 2021