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NATIONALITY BILL: STATE OF PLAY ON COMPLETION OF THE REPORT STAGE IN THE LORDS
Provisions for acquisition of citizenship etc
1. As a result of pressure during the Committee Stage in the Lords the Government introduced a number of amendments to these provisions principally facilitating the transmission of citizenship to children born overseas. These were
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a. changing the criterion for transmission of citizenship to
the second generation born abroad from the nature of the transmitting parent's employment (eg with a British firm) to a requirement of residence in the UK by the parent for three years at any time before the child's birth. This was universally welcomed in the Lords and no doubt will be in the Commons;
b. treating British employees of EC institutions in the same
way as Crown Servants in that their children born during service overseas will be regarded as British by birth and not by descent. The FCO advocated this at an earlier stage in the Bill. There could at some stage be pressure on Ministers on behalf of British employees of other international organisations. It is possible to deal with such representations after the Parliamentary process and they could best be handled then;
c. an amendment moved by the Opposition against Government advice.
which purports to give an avenue of appeal against a decision by the Home Secretary to refuse naturalisation or registration if it is alleged that the refusal amounted to discimination on grounds of race, colour or creed. (See para 6 below).
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