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about the other categories of people who have a status under
law but are not CUKCs?
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brduk Subjects Without Citizenship and British Protected Persons who. Lave been settled in the United Kingdom for 5 years would be entitled to be registered as British Citizens. The status of other British Subjects without Citizenship and British Protected Persons and of British Subjects
der Section 2 (Irish persons) of the British Nationality Act 1948 ould remain unchanged.
ACQUISITION OF CITIZENSHIP BY PERSONS BORN AFTER OR APPLYING FOR IT AFTER
THE NEW LAW COMES INTO OPERATION
BRITISH CITIZENSHIP
10. What methods would there be for acquisition of British Citizenship?
i)
By birth in the United Kingdom;
ii) By descent from a father or mother born in the United Kingdom; iii) By naturalisation; and
iv) By registration (minors only).
Acquisition under (iii) and (iv) would be known as citizenship by Grant and would equate to citizenship by descent for the purposes of transmitting British Citizenship to a child born outside the UK..
11. What is the position of a child born outside the United Kingdom to British Citizen parents by descent, naturalisation or registration?
The child would have no automatic claim to British Citizenship if neither barent was born in the UK. However, there would be provisions for such a child to acquire British Citizenship by registration. These are:
i)
ii)
as an entitlement if the family return to the
UK and are resident there for 3 years;
if either parent has 'close connections' with the UK (to be defined in more detail in the Nationality Bill); and
iii) discretionary power for the Home Secretary to register other
children as British Citizens in exceptional circumstances.
Acquisition of citizenship by means of Consular birth registration [in foreign countries] would cease under the new law.
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