Crowdsourcing changes to UK law
U.K Ancestry visa should be available for citizens of any country with a grandparent born in the U.K , and not just for Commonwealth citizens.
U.K Ancestry visa should be available for citizens of any country with a grandparent born in the U.K , and not just for Commonwealth citizens.
Before the British Nationality Act 1981 came into force on 1 JANUARY 1983, British mothers could not pass on their citizenship to their children born abroad. Nationality could be passed on only through the male line. And children born abroad to men who were British citizens by descent could became British if the birth was registered at the local British consulate, whereas the foreign-born chlidren of British women had no such right and so were not registered.The 2002 Act simple allowed the children of women who were British to become British. But if the mother was British by descent only, the child birth should had been registered. Last year ,Lord Avebury and others , campaigned on this issue, to remove the requirement of the birth registration, during the passage of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill 2009. The Government did not accept it.. Now , however , the Government does not wish to assume that a mother would have taken the necessary action to enable her children to acquire British citizenship had she been able to pass on her citizenship status by descent. These leaves the children of women who were British by descent with no entitlement to British citizenship under the current provisions, thus perpetuating a degree of discrimination. The new Governmet should end with this discrimination, which gives rise to many anomalous and unfair situations in which certain categories of people cannot get British citizenship .
Before the British Nationality Act 1981 came into force on 1 JANUARY 1983, British mothers could not pass on their citizenship to their children born abroad. Nationality could be passed on only through the male line. And children born abroad to men who were British citizens by descent could became British if the birth was registered at the local British consulate, whereas the foreign-born chlidren of British women had no such right and so were not registered.The 2002 Act simple allowed the children of women who were British to become British. But if the mother was British by descent only, the child birth should had been registered. Last year ,Lord Avebury and others , campaigned on this issue, to remove the requirement of the birth registration, during the passage of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill 2009. The Government did not accept it.. Now , however , the Government does not wish to assume that a mother would have taken the necessary action to enable her children to acquire British citizenship had she been able to pass on her citizenship status by descent. These leaves the children of women who were British by descent with no entitlement to British citizenship under the current provisions, thus perpetuating a degree of discrimination. The new Governmet should end with this discrimination, which gives rise to many anomalous and unfair situations in which certain categories of people cannot get British citizenship .