Written Question·Home Office·UIN 31371

Immigration

Tabled: 12 February 2025

Answered: 25 February 2025

Named Day

Question

Laura Kyrke-Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes made to her Department's guidance entitled Nationality: good character requirement, published on 10 February 2025, on (a) refugees alr

Answer

Seema Malhotra

The previous government's Illegal Migration Act introduced a statutory ban on granting citizenship to anyone who has arrived in the country through irregular routes, a measure that proved completely unworkable, contained minimal discretion to recognise ex...

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