British Nationality

(asked on 18th July 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average cost was of processing (a) a child's citizenship application, (b) an adult's citizenship application; and how many applications for children's citizenship his Department received in 2017.


Answered by
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Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 23rd July 2018

The Home Office published a list of Border, Immigration and Citizenship (BIC) application fees and estimated unit costs for 2017/18. The fees and cost to process applications for citizenship applications can be found on page 16 of the following link: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/606616/Unit_cost_table_2017.pdf

The information available on the numbers of applications for British citizenship broken down by naturalisation and registration is published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics, Citizenship volume table cz_01_q at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2018/list-of-tables#citizenship.

The total number of applications for registration made in 2017 totals 41,905.

Applications for citizenship as minor children represent the large majority of those counted in the category ‘Applications for registration’.

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