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Home Office crackdown to block criminals getting citizenship

New rules are set to come into force aimed at preventing serious criminals gaining British citizenship. Changes to the “good character” requirement of citizenship applications from Monday will see tougher rules applied to anyone who has received a ...

30 Jul 2023 at 10:45

Scotland

Scotland will choose independence, insists Yousaf as new policy paper released

Scotland’s First Minister has insisted the Yes campaign would win “comprehensively” if a second referendum on independence was held tomorrow. Despite several polls putting support for independence at less than 50%, Humza Yousaf made the claim as ...

27 Jul 2023 at 17:00

Ireland

New citizens ‘important reciprocation’ over millions who emigrated – McEntee

Ireland’s welcoming of 3,000 new citizens is an important reciprocation over the millions of Irish who emigrated over previous centuries, Minister for Justice Helen McEntee has said. There were celebrations at the National Convention Centre in ...

02 Oct 2023 at 15:02

Irish people living in UK should have citizenship offer without fees, MP says

People born in the Republic of Ireland who have settled in the UK should be offered the right to claim British citizenship without the need for tests and fees, ministers have been told. DUP MP Gavin Robinson called on ministers to change the ...

26 Jan 2024 at 14:51

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Dozens of Leitrim residents among 6000 new Irish citizens conferred in Dublin

Dozens of Leitrim residents are among 6000 new Irish citizens conferred at a recent ceremony in Dublin. According to the Department of Justice, six separate ceremonies took place across Monday December 18 and Tuesday December 19 2023 in the ...

11 Jan 2024 at 20:33

Shamima Begum loses challenge over removal of British citizenship

Shamima Begum has lost a legal challenge over the decision to deprive her of her British citizenship. Ms Begum was 15 when she travelled from Bethnal Green, east London, through Turkey and into territory controlled by the so-called Islamic ...

22 Feb 2023 at 10:54

Judgment due in Shamima Begum’s appeal over citizenship removal

Shamima Begum is due to find out whether she has won an appeal against the decision to remove her British citizenship. Ms Begum was 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls travelled to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State ...

22 Feb 2023 at 02:45

‘We will keep fighting’ Shamima Begum’s lawyers say after appeal loss

Shamima Begum’s lawyers have said they will “keep fighting” after the 24-year-old lost a challenge over the removal of her British citizenship at the Court of Appeal. Last year, Ms Begum lost her first appeal against the decision to ...

23 Feb 2024 at 14:29

‘Immoral’ asset managers have ‘co-opted’ diversity agenda, says Gove

Big corporations have “co-opted” diversity and inclusion to “insulate themselves” from resentment at their wealth, Michael Gove has said. In a speech on Tuesday, the long-serving Cabinet minister described “the accumulation of ...

31 Oct 2023 at 15:11

Shamima Begum faces wait for appeal decision in citizenship case

Shamima Begum will face a wait to find out whether she has won a Court of Appeal bid over the removal of her British citizenship. Ms Begum travelled to Syria in 2015 – at the age of 15 – before her citizenship was revoked on ...

25 Oct 2023 at 17:07

Bill to make it easier for Irish people to get British citizenship progresses

A Bill that would make it easier for people from the Republic of Ireland to become British citizens has moved closer to becoming law. The British Nationality (Irish Citizens) Bill, introduced by interim leader of the DUP ...

26 Apr 2024 at 16:28

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Bill to make it easier for Irish people to get British citizenship progresses

26 Apr 2024 at 17:33

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