British Nationality: Coronavirus

Summary

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to allow applicants for naturalisation as British citizens to continue to qualify if they have been absent outside the UK for more than three months as a result of covid

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1. 24 November 2020

   Written question

   To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to allow applicants for naturalisation as British citizens to continue to qualify if they have been absent outside the UK for more than three months as a result of covid

   Source: Commons

2. 30 November 2020

   Answer

   There is discretion within the British Nationality Act 1981 to overlook excess absences, which is explained in published guidance. When considering whether to exercise discretion we will take into account time when a person was unable to return to the UK ...

   Source: Written answer

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