Court allows Priti Patel to keep charging children £1,012 for British citizenship
The ruling allows the home secretary to make a £640 profit on every child applying.
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Woman who lived in the UK for most of her life is refused British citizenship
“I am basically British but because of a few technicalities I am treated differently, I just think it’s fundamentally very unfair," she told The London Economic.
Home Office stripping people of British citizenship is ‘unlawful’, court rules
“There may be good policy reasons for empowering the home secretary to deprive a person of citizenship without giving notice, but such a step is not lawful under this legislation," Lady Justice Whipple has said.
EU citizen who faced UK citizenship hurdles warns: ‘It can be removed on a whim’
The government’s Nationality and Borders Bill has sparked a heated debate on the power the home secretary will have to remove citizenship from people.
British citizenship removed from hundreds of people over past 15 years
“Depriving people of their citizenship means stripping away their identity, their sense of belonging and their ability to seek protection. As such, it is wrong in principle," one lawyer said.
WATCH: Home Office video defends British citizenship move – reactions
Despite the Tories' claim, two prominent UK lawyers and the United Nations released serious warnings for the UK public regarding the Nationality and Borders Bill.
Thousands sign petition to stop government from being able to strip citizenship
The new government Bill creates "different classes of British citizenship" and has no meaning "if it discriminates", Good Law Project said.
After 7 years in the UK, I became British – and I don’t know how I feel about it
"I am simply glad to be able to keep my life as it had been before a referendum in which I had no say, but turned my life upside down."
‘Utterly draconian’ bill could allow Priti Patel to remove citizenship without notice
It could also allow the government to act retrospectively when it comes to British citizenship - which is not the first time the Home Office has pushed for retrospective law related to British citizenship this year.