Mentions:
1: Gavin Robinson (DUP - Belfast East) We also know through Library research that some proceed to pay the naturalisation fee and complete a - Speech Link
2: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) administrative fairness across the UK, the qualifying period of five years’ residency is equivalent to other applications - Speech Link
3: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) The Government also argued that naturalisation and citizenship fees are an important means by which the - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) made before.Nobody is entitled under any form of international law to succeed in an application for naturalisation - Speech Link
2: None for naturalisation or other immigration processes, to which I have been referring so far, and applications - Speech Link
3: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) The noble Lord, Lord Moylan, logically and methodically pointed out the distinction between the naturalisation - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Adult registration applications do not have a waiver available, but most of the applications for registration - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (CON - Life peer) Naturalisation is a concession by the state to those who are not British, to allow them to become British - Speech Link
2: None The conflation of registration and naturalisation, to which the Home Office adheres, is exactly the sort - Speech Link
3: None I know that my noble friend is in favour of applying the citizenship ban to naturalisation. - Speech Link
4: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) Again, I would point out that the test applied by the Strasbourg court when considering applications - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Dan Carden (LAB - Liverpool, Walton) To take one example, the fee for in- country naturalisation stands at £1,330, yet Home Office figures - Speech Link
2: Dan Carden (LAB - Liverpool, Walton) Office chooses to be selective, applying service standards to other types of application, such as for naturalisation - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) them to be subject to the ban in the same way as naturalisation applicants. - Speech Link
2: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) risk of serious and irreversible harm”is the test applied by the Strasbourg court when considering applications - Speech Link
3: Lord Carlile of Berriew (CB - Life peer) attention to the current, as of today, UK Visas and Immigration guidance, Judicial Reviews, Injunctions and Applications - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Rob Roberts (IND - Delyn) Lords, the Government announced that armed forces veterans would be exempted from paying fees for ILR applications - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Rob Roberts (IND - Delyn) The naturalisation process costs more than £4,000. That is one of the most expensive in the world. - Speech Link
2: Rob Roberts (IND - Delyn) Gentleman agree that it is not just the cost of the applications themselves, but all the supplementary - Speech Link
3: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) Are people deciding not to apply for ILR, or to put off their applications for it? - Speech Link
4: Robert Jenrick (CON - Newark) The most recently published statistics say that 61,414 visa applications were made, which account for - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Hay of Ballyore (DUP - Life peer) is especially challenging for those from lower-income backgrounds.The process of British citizenship applications - Speech Link
2: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (LAB - Life peer) What is the actual administrative cost of processing the applications? - Speech Link
3: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) I do not accept that, because it is important when considering naturalisation that everyone is treated - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) We will be able to slow down the processing of applications, require applicants to pay a £190 surcharge - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) Successful applications will be approved within minutes of submission.Regarding the impact on frequent - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) Its tone and what it says at the end I particularly welcome:“We look forward to welcoming applications - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) However, we recognise that the fees attached to settlement applications place a financial burden on our - Speech Link
5: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (CON - Life peer) In simple terms, while our committee was sitting the fees for naturalisation were raised to £1202, with - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None Both applications would be free of charge. - Speech Link
2: Lord Paddick (LDEM - Life peer) 2015-2021, which on my calculations is about 1% of the applications received. - Speech Link
3: None Those familiar with the Act will be aware that the requirements largely mirror those for naturalisation - Speech Link
4: Baroness Ludford (LDEM - Life peer) good—but on the other two arms of my amendment, on registration of children as British citizens and naturalisation - Speech Link