British Citizenship

[Bazile]

Should people who have already got citizenship by marriage be allowed to keep or should it be taken away , retrospectively ?

https://www-independent-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.independent.co.uk/life-style/nationality-borders-bill-citizenship-uk-b1973034.html?amp_js_v=a3&amp_gsa=1&amp&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D#aoh=16391701380151&amp_ct=1639170453218&;referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&;amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Flife-style%2Fnationality-borders-bill-citizenship-uk-b1973034.html

[Cloverjo]

It shouldn’t be taken away retrospectively unless there’s good reason to think it was a sham marriage. People need peace of mind.

My daughter-in-law is from Eastern Europe and has given up on getting UK citizenship because of the cost and the ludicrous exam she’d have to take.

I still worry that she could be deported even though she’s married to a Brit, is about to give birth to a British baby and is a hard-working tax-paying person.

[Buenchico]

I think that our legislators need to take a look at the international conventions that the UK has signed up to, including both the 1954 and 1961 UN Conventions on Human Rights:
https://www.unhcr.org/uk/un-conventions-on-statelessness.html

[Peter Pedant]

The govt know they cant make someone stateless
they are reminded by everyone ( including me)

deporting stateless people kicked off in 1973 - ugandan asians

[ToraToraTora]

There is no citizenship by marriage. That racket was ended decades ago.

[Peter Pedant]

It seems OK to deprive a dual citizen of citizenship so long as he has one to go to [keep]

some dont allow dual citizens - so ma daydy swore allegiance to the Great White Queen and didnt tell his base country -
and then.... over Rhodesia ( yes that long ago 1966)
renewed his first passport ( Gomboolaland as it then was or some damned country ) - we all thought Kray-zee !

My mother with the 1947 crazy rules for India and Br Raj could never perfect her nationality status ( in-betweeny) - neither one nor the other. She did turn p her nose at Indian nationality

[davebro]

I seriously doubt that if a foreign woman has been here for years & is married to and has a family with a British man that she is in any danger of deportation.

A friend went to Brazil & married & had a child with a Brazilian woman - the fact that he fathered a Brazilian child gave him the right to reside there (not sure about citizenship).

[sandyRoe]

Davebro,
Are you talking about Ronnie Briggs? Was he a friend?

[davebro]

No not Biggs - unfortunately my friend drowned while fishing.