British Nationality: Fees and Charges

(asked on 7th September 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to take steps to reduce the cost of applying for British Citizenship.


Answered by
Tom Pursglove Portrait
Tom Pursglove
Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
This question was answered on 22nd September 2022

The Home Office keeps fees for immigration and nationality applications under review. However, there are no plans to reduce fees for applications for British Citizenship.

Where fee exceptions are extended to citizenship applications, these are in very limited circumstances and have been put in place to remedy historical anomalies in nationality law.

An amendment to the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations was laid on 26 May 2022 that provides a power to waive fees for child registration applications on the basis of affordability and a fee exception for children who are looked after by a local authority.

We remain of the view that citizenship is not required in order to live, study and work in the UK as leave to remain confers these benefits.

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