Comment by jlokier
24 days ago
> If you are British at birth they can't strip your citizenship and kick you out
Not true. If you have dual nationality at birth, typically because you have one British parent and are born in the UK, then you are British at birth but the Home Secretary has the power to strip you of British citizenship anyway.
So, paradoxically, a child born in the UK to a British mother can end up with stronger UK citizenship rights if the mother doesn't reveal who the father is.
That's not as bad as if you are a naturalized British citizen. In that case, the Home Secretary has the power to strip you of British citzenship and leave you entirely stateless (you have no citizenship anywhere), which you can imagine is a very difficult status to live with.
This is what I thought until last week. Then I read the actual legislation. The 2014 changes apply to naturalised citizens. If you are born with two citizenships you aren't naturalised.
It's not from the 2014 changes.
From https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn06...:
"Someone who was born British and has no other nationality cannot be deprived of their citizenship in any circumstances."
"Deprivation now affects people born in the UK, not just naturalised citizens"
"Until 2003, however, deprivation was only possible for naturalised citizens."
"The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 extended citizenship deprivation to British-born dual nationals for the first time."