Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how Form EM applications for registration as British citizens are considered in cases where British National (Overseas) status holders are unable to safely (a) access and (b) exercise any other nationality because of (i) political risk and (ii) persecution.

A British National (Overseas) (BN(O)) applying under this route would need to demonstrate they do not have another nationality.

The statutory test is concerned with the legal possession of a nationality, irrespective of whether they are able to avail themselves of it by approaching the authorities of the country concerned.