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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 …

“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

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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:

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 …