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Updated booklet: Children and their rights to British citizenship

13 Apr 2025

We are delighted to share our updated booklet on Children and their rights to British citizenship. We are grateful to the late Benjamin Zephaniah for his powerful foreword, Chris Riddell for his beautiful illustrations and Esmee Fairbairn Foundation for funding this update. Limited numbers of hardcopies are available via admin@prcbc.net. We welcome donations to our …

Home Office policy on the Nationality good character requirement: Children and illegal entry

1 Apr 2025

Yesterday, PRCBC’s Patron, Baroness Lister of Burtersett, received a written answer (HL 5846) concerning the recent changes to the Home Office policy guidance on the Nationality: good character requirement. The minister confirms that a breach of immigration law is normally to be disregarded if it is accepted the breach was outside the control of the …

Joint submissions made by PRCBC and Amnesty UK to the Public Bill Committee on how the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill relates to rights to British citizenship

23 Feb 2025

Changes to Home Office guidance on good character requirement for citizenship

12 Feb 2025

The Home Office has amended its guidance on how it intends to apply arequirement of good character to applications for citizenship.

Reasserting Rights to British Citizenship by Registration: the requirement of good character

7 Feb 2025

Published in Asylum, Immigration and Nationality Law Journal, July 2024

PRCBC new business and registered address

12 Nov 2024

From 12 November 2024, PRCBC new business and registered address is as follows: Second Floor, 23 Eyot Gardens, London, W6 9TR

PRCBC meetings with Government and official bodies to discuss Children’s and young people citizenship rights

17 Oct 2024

In the last two months, PRCBC and Amnesty UK met with the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and Legal Aid Agency (LAA), the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI), and the Home Office Passport, Identity and Nationality Policy Team.

Parliamentary Questions on British Citizenship Rights

27 Sep 2024

In early September 2024, PRCBC assisted our patron, Baroness Lister of Burtersett, in tabling several parliamentary questions concerning children’s rights to British citizenship. The Minister, Lord Hanson of Flint, answered these in two groups on 16 and 17 September respectively.

Practioners’ note on Roehrig – Supreme Court

15 Aug 2024

PRCBC ongoing work on Good Character Requirement in Citizenship Registration

1 Jun 2024

PRCBC’s work continues to develop on challenging the good character requirement that applies to the registration of British citizenship for children and young people from the age of 10. In April 2024, we ran a mini conference with specialist lawyers to re-examine and refine our strategic litigation concerning this character requirement. We have contributed to …

Reasserting Rights to British Citizenship Through Registration: the section 3(1) discretion to register children

13 Mar 2024

Published in Asylum, Immigration and Nationality Law Journal, 2023

Practitioner’s note on R (Roehrig) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWCA Civ 240

13 Mar 2024

Press release: Home Office misunderstood British citizenship laws over several decades – Court of Appeal agrees with High Court ruling

13 Mar 2024

Court of Appeal Judgment: Roehrig v SSHD Court of Appeal decision handed down on 12 March 2024 agrees with High Court judgment in January 2023. Following that High Court judgment, Parliament passed the British Nationality (Regularisation of Past Practice) Act 2023, via an accelerated procedure, to guarantee the British citizenship of thousands of people affected …

Motion of regret in response to latest citizenship and immigration fees

30 Nov 2023

On Monday, 4 December, Baroness Lister of Burtsett is to move a motion of regret in response to the latest citizenship and immigration fees. A joint briefing from PRCBC, Amnesty, Ramfel and the3million concerning the fee for registration as a British citizen is here:

PRCBC note for practitioners on the British Nationality (Regularisation of Past Practice) Act 2023

4 Jul 2023

The British Nationality (Regularisation of Past Practice) Act 2023 became law on 29 June 2023 with retrospective effect. Tens of thousands of British citizens can feel secure that their citizenship is safe against confusing, changing and at times even contradictory positions at the Home Office about the true meaning of British nationality law – particularly …

Joint Letter to the Minister on current Bill (Citizenship)

4 Jul 2023

We have written with Amnesty International UK to the Minister following the debate on children’s citizenship rights at report stage of the Government’s immigration bill. The letter sets out fatal misunderstandings of British nationality law that underpin the exclusion of rights of registration currently in in the bill.

Government’s Home Office Bill: PRCBC and Amnesty UK Joint Briefing on Citizenship clauses in this Bill (House of Lords, Report Stage, June-July 2023)

28 Jun 2023

PRCBC and Amnesty UK has also written jointly to peers who participated in the 12 June 2023 Committee stage debate on provisions of the Government’s latest immigration bill that improperly interfere with British nationality rights. The letter addresses the key points made by the Minister in the debate when attempting to justify this impropriety.

Government Immigration Bill, Session 2022-23 (HL Bill 133) – House of Lords Committee (June 2023) British citizenship Government Immigration Bill, Session 2022-23 (HL Bill 133) –

19 Jun 2023

Our join briefing with Amnesty UK.

Joint Briefing on Home Office New Nationality Law Bill (House of Lords, 19 and 21 June 2023)

19 Jun 2023

The British Nationality (Regularisation of Past Practice) Bill is primarily concerned with the British citizenship rights of children born in the UK between 1 January 1983 and 1 October 2000 (inclusive) to parents exercising EU free movement rights.

Joint Briefing on Home Office New Nationality Law Bill (House of Commons, 6 June 2023)

6 Jun 2023

This Bill is primarily concerned with the British citizenship rights of children born in the UK between 1 January 1983 and 1 October 2000 (inclusive) to parents exercising EU free movement rights.

Home Office Introduces New Nationality Law Bill today (24 May 2023)

24 May 2023

The Government have today introduced the British Nationality (Regularisation of Past Practice) Bill. This is intended to confirm people’s British citizenship rights following the change in the Home Office’s position concerning how British nationality law applied to people born to EU citizen parents in the UK between 1 January 1983 and 1 October 2000 (inclusive). …

Government’s latest Home Office Bill: PRCBC and Amnesty UK Joint Briefing on Citizenship clauses in this Bill (House of Lords)

2 May 2023

Government’s latest Home Office Bill (Bill 262): Joint Briefing on Citizenship clauses in this Bill including amendment

28 Apr 2023

PRCBC Statement on the citizenship clauses of this Bill “The Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens (PRCBC) is appalled at the Government’s legislative proposal to exclude some British children, born in the UK, from their statutory rights to be registered as British citizens under the British Nationality Act 1981. Clause 30(4) and …

Update on confirmation of British citizenship rights following a change in the Home Office position concerning how British nationality law applies to people born to EU citizen parents between 1 January 1983 and 1 October 2000 (inclusive)

27 Apr 2023

This update is provided following a recent meeting with the Home Office organised by the Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens (PRCBC) and attended by Amnesty International UK, ILPA, the3million and HM Passport Office. Background: The change in the Home Office position was first announced during a hearing before the High Court …

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