Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will assess the potential merits of amending the immigration rules to give officials the power in exceptional circumstances to waive the need to have been in the UK at the start of the qualifying period for naturalisation.

On 24 March 2021, as part of the New Plan for Immigration, the Home Secretary announced several proposed changes to British nationality law.

These included a proposal to allow the requirement to have been in the UK at the start of the qualifying period to be waived in exceptional circumstances