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The Home Office has today published a new policy providing a fee waiver for some children applying to be registered as British citizens. The policy states that the fee should be waived if the child and her, his or their parents “have credibly demonstrated” that they cannot afford the fee after meeting their essential living needs.  This …

PRCBC Board of Trustees (Carol Bohmer, Pauline Gooderson, Sue Shutter, Astalli Rasidaki, Rita Chadha and Precious Arabambi) and Solange Valdez-Symonds (CEO/Solicitor) wish to thank those involved in our over 9-year journey: Our resilient beneficiaries (British children with citizenship rights) Campaign Teams: i) Amnesty UK and Children’s Human Rights Network (Amnesty) ii) Surrey Square School Patron: Baroness …

The Home Office has today published its fee waiver form for children who cannot afford the £1,012 fee to be registered as British citizens. The form is to give effect to the fee waiver introduced from 16 June 2022. The regulations that have introduced the fee waiver also provide an exemption from the fee for …

PRCBC has published some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and a note for practitioners on the new fee exemptions and waiver that are to take effect on 16 June 2022. There is more information below. Practitioners Note on the new citizenship fee waiver and exemptions: Our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on the new citizenship fee waiver …

The Home Secretary’s review of children’s best interests and the £1,012 fee it demands for registration of children’s right to British citizenship is due to be published by 10 June 2022.   The failure of the Home Secretary to consider children’s best interests in setting this fee was found to be unlawful by the High …

Joint Briefing (PRCBC, ILPA, Amnesty UK, Coram Children’s Legal Centre (CCLC) and European Children’s Rights Unit (ECRU)): Citizenship Rights of Stateless Children born in the UK

Joint Briefing on Citizenship Part 1: Chagossians, Adoption and Deprivation

The Supreme Court will be delivering its judgment in PRCBC & O v SSHD on whether the £1,012 fee for a child to be registered as a British citizen is lawful on Wednesday 2 February: https://www.supremecourt.uk/news/future-judgments.html

We are really glad to announce that on 13 October 2021, the High Court (Deputy High Court Judge Richard Hermer QC) granted the Claimant (BC) permission to apply for judicial review at an oral hearing.  The grounds on which permission was granted concern: The Claimant was represented by: with assistance of:

We have the pleasure to share our joint submissions with Amnesty International UK to the Public Bill Committee in connection with Part 1 (Nationality) of this Bill:

We wish to provide the following updates on a number of PRCBC key court challenges and policy work: 1. Section 3(1) BNA 1981 (registration of children by discretion) Further to our previous update on this page and note circulated to professional individuals and google groups on our section 3(1) High Court challenge which was settled …

Draft Regulations have been laid (British Nationality Act 1981 (Immigration Rules Appendix EU) (Amendment) Regulations 2021). These are intended to amend the British Nationality Act 1981 so that a child born to an European Union citizen on or after 1 July 2021, who is not born a British citizen will automatically acquire British citizenship if …

The Home Office settled five judicial review claims brought by teenagers challenging the policy under which they were refused registration as British citizens under section 3(1) of the British Nationality Act 1981. All five young people have been assisted by PRCBC and were represented by our solicitor, Solange Valdez-Symonds. Each of these young people was …

The Court of Appeal has today upheld the High Court ruling that the £1,012 fee for a child to register as a British citizen is unlawful because it is set without consideration of the best interests of children. Two judges also indicate they see “considerable force” in PRCBC’s argument that the fee is additionally unlawful …

The Court of Appeal will hand down its judgment in R (PRCBC & O v Secretary of State for the Home Department) on the Home Office fee for children to register as British citizens at 10.30 am on Thursday, 18 February 2021. Further information will be posted here on PRCBC’s website when the judgment is …

Last week the Court of Appeal heard the challenge of PRCBC & O to the Home Office £1,012 fee for children to register their right to British citizenship. The decision from the court is now pending. Further information will be posted here on PRCBC’s website when it is available. For now, we must await the …

Briefing on Deprivation in Part 1 of the Nationality and Borders Bill: Briefing on Good Character, Chagossians, Fees and Stateless Children in Part 1 of the Nationality and Borders Bill:

The hearing will be live streamed broadcast and accessible from the judiciary’s website here: https://www.judiciary.uk/you-and-the-judiciary/going-to-court/court-of-appeal-home/the-court-of-appeal-civil-division-live-streaming-of-court-hearings/. The video will also be accessible from the court website after the hearing. The video is only shared with YouTube. For our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on case: FAQ4_PRCBC_Aug2020docx FAQ4_PRCBC_Aug2020docx For our note on the case : note_fees_litigation_sept_2020Download

Our joint Briefings to the Lords on the Immigration and Social Security Coordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill 2019-2021 concerning children, including children in care, can be found here: 28 September 2020 Briefing Word Version joint-aiuk-prcbc-briefing-immigration-bill-2019-2021-amendment-16-british-citizenship Lords_Briefing_Joint AIUK PRCBC_EU Withdrawal_ Bill 2019-2021  PDF version Joint AIUK PRCBC Briefing Immigration Bill 2019-2021 (Amendment 16 – British citizenship) July …