British Nationality

(asked on 16th December 2014) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applicants were granted British citizenship who had previously absconded from immigration detention in the UK in each of the last five years.


Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 5th January 2015

Information on how many individuals who were granted British citizenship who had previously absconded from immigration detentions is not aggregated in national reporting systems. This information could only be obtained by a
disproportionately expensive manual case by case search to collate the data.

However where a person has previously absconded from immigration detention they would not normally be granted citizenship as the good character requirement would not be satisfied.

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