Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what process her Department has for assessing citizenship applications from people who previously obtained a spousal visa through the submission of fraudulent documentation.

The requirements to naturalise as a British citizen are set out in the British Nationality Act 1981 and require a person to be of good character. An application to naturalise would normally fall be refused where a person has employed deception:

• during the citizenship application process
• in a previous immigration application in the previous 10 years

Guidance on the Good Character requirement can be found on GOV.UK:

Good character: caseworker guidance - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).