The High Court hearing of BC v SSHD will be on 12-13 October 2022
The grounds on which permission was granted concern: The Claimant is represented by: with assistance of:
Practitioner’s note on registration of children by discretion and Home Office revised guidance (section 3(1) British Nationality Act 1981)
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 …
Minister’s letter of response to PRCBC and Amnesty UK’s letter of citizenship rights and fee waiver
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 …
Registration of children by discretion and Home Office revised policy guidance (section 3(1) British Nationality Act 1981)
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 …
House of Lords, Motion to Regret Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2022
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:
Joint letter to the Minister
Our joint letter to the Minister on various children’s citizenship fee matters HERE:
Citizenship fee waivers: new Home Office policy on children’s registration and best interests
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 …
9 years of PRCBC
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 …
Home Office Citizenship fee waiver Form: Children’s British citizenship registration
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 …
Citizenship fee waivers: new Home Office policy on children’s registration and best interests
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 …
Children’s Best Interests and huge citizenship fees
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 on Citizenship Registration Fees
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 …
Nationality & Borders Bill (NBB): House of Lords Report Stage, 28 February 2022
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
Nationality & Borders Bill (NBB): House of Lords Report Stage, 28 February 2022
Joint Briefing on Citizenship Part 1: Chagossians, Adoption and Deprivation
Supreme Court Judgment in PRCBC & O v SSHD (Citizenship Fee)
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
Judicial review at an oral hearing
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:
Joint Submissions to the Public Bill Committee on Part 1 (Nationality) of the Nationality & Borders Bill
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:
Update on various PRCBC policy and casework on Children’s British Citizenship matters
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 …
PRCBC & O v SSHD citizenship fee case heard by the Supreme Court on 23 and 24 June 2021
On 23 and 24 June, the Supreme Court heard PRCBC & O v SSHD citizenship fee case. You can watch the hearing by following this link: The Supreme Court will deliver judgment in due course. It’s unclear how soon save to note that the court had treated PRCBC & O as expedited cases. We will …
Amendment to the British Nationality Act 1981 to take effect from 1 July 2021
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 have settled PRCBC judicial review test cases on children seeking to register as British citizens by discretion
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 …