10am on 22 March, the Home Office announced by e-mail news alert that all citizenship applications are to be made online from that day. The Home Office has failed to understand that online applications CANNOT be made mandatory in citizenship applications unless the British Nationality (General) Regulations are amended (s41 BNA 1981). PRCBC has sent a joint letter to the Minister requesting her to take urgent steps to comply with the regulations and correct the announcement. Our joint letter to the Minister: