PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
British Nationality (19 March 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the Government will introduce retrospective changes to the law, to allow people who were born outside the UK before 1 January 1983 to a British parent, to inherit their parent's UK citizenship.

Asked by:
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)

A person who is of the first generation born outside the United Kingdom to a British citizen would usually be a British citizen by descent, including where they were born before 1 January 1983, with a few exceptions.

The 1981 Act also contains provision for children born outside the UK to British citizens by descent, who have retained a close connection to the UK to register as British citizens.

Since the British Nationality Act 1981 was introduced amendments have been made to allow children of unmarried British fathers and children of British mothers, who would have become British citizens had women been able to pass on their citizenship in the same way as men, to register as British citizens.

Answered by:
Caroline Nokes (Conservative)
22 March 2018