Amnesty, PRCBC, ILPA and the3million letter of March 2023 to Home Office on citizenship rights of people born in UK before 2 October 2000 to parents exercising EU free movement rights

This joint Amnesty, PRCBC, ILPA and the3million letter to Home Office concerns the citizenship rights of people born in UK before 2 October 2000 to parents exercising EU free movement rights.

It seeks Home Office action to address the jeopardy into which it has put the British citizenship of these people and their descendants following the department's argument before the High Court in October 2022 that it had misunderstood and misapplied the British nationality law.

The Home Office has now amended its own guidance including with the assurance:

"We have amended this guidance to reflect the fact that the policy for the acquisition of citizenship by individuals born in the UK between 1 January 1983 and 1 October 2000 inclusive to an EEA national parent has been suspended whilst the Home Office assesses recently identified legal issues, and to confirm that if someone has already been recognised as a British citizen, for example, through the issue of a British citizen passport, we will continue to treat them as such."