Project for the Registration of Children of British Citizens
“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 similar provisions concerning British nationality must be removed from …
Joint letter to the Home Office concerning the dreadfully uncertain position in which it has placed thousands of people who are British by reason of their birth in the UK to parents who were exercising EU free movement rights. This follows the High Court judgment in Antoine Roehrig v SSHD Children born in the UK …
PRCBC is profoundly disappointed at the latest news that the appeal of Shamima Begum – a young British woman, trafficked to Syria when still a schoolgirl – against the Home Secretary’s decision to strip her of her citizenship has been dismissed. This perpetuates an appalling decision of the Government that is deeply divisive and undermines …
On Friday 20 January 2023, the High Court handed down its judgment on the meaning of settled in the British Nationality Act 1981. This is important for the citizenship rights of children born in the UK since 1 January 1983 when the Act did away with automatic citizenship merely by birth in the UK. The …
Reasserting Rights to British Citizenship Through Registration: Judicial Review of the Registration Fee Steve Valdez-Symonds and Solange Valdez-Symonds
We are grateful to all our young people for their participation during our 10th Anniversary event on 22 November 2022. Jokotola Adenuga, speaker (Manchester), 22/11/22
PRESS RELEASE For immediate release: Tuesday 1 November 2022 This month, the Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens (PRCBC) will celebrate a milestone anniversary, as it marks ten years of defending children’s citizenship rights. Founded in November 2012, by solicitor and CEO Solange Valdez-Symonds, PRCBC is the first and only organisation working …
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The guidance has been revised in light of PRCBC’s last court challenge (Ojeh v SSHD). In April 2021, this court case settled without a final hearing with the Home Office agreeing to review their guidance. In the last 8 years, PRCBC has had to bring numerous judicial review claims challenging the Home Office policy and …
PRCBC welcomes the recognition in the Minister’s letter of the especial importance of British citizenship to children who are born or spent a substantial part of their lives in the UK. However, as addressed in our letter, PRCBC’s concerns regarding the implementation of the fee waiver continue to include the failure to make regulations by …
The policy guidance has been revised in light of PRCBC’s last court challenge (Ojeh v SSHD). In April 2021, this court case settled without a final hearing with the Home Office agreeing to review their policy guidance. The new Home Office policy guidance can be found HERE. In the last 8 years, PRCBC have had …
We are grateful to our patron, Baroness Lister, for tabling a motion of regret on the recent citizenship fee regulations. This will be debated by the House of Lords on 6 July 2022. House of Lords debate can be found here For our joint briefing with Amnesty UK:
Our joint letter to the Minister on various children’s citizenship fee matters HERE:
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 …
Nationality and Borders Bill, House of Lords Report Stage (8 March 2022) Let’s stop charging British people a huge fee of £1,000+ to have their right, given by Parliament under the British Nationality Act 1981, confirmed. Let’s stop the further alienation and exclusion this fee causes to so many already marginalised people, including children in …
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
