British Nationality: British Indian Ocean Territory
(asked on 24th November 2021) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to allow descendants of the natives of the Chagos Archipelago to have the right to register as full British citizens.
Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
The Nationality and Borders Bill will introduce measures which will allow children of British Overseas Territories Citizen (BOTC) mothers, who were born before 1983; and the children of BOTC unmarried fathers who were born before 2006, to register as BOTCs.
Children of Chagossian mothers who left the Chagos Islands before 1969 would also be able to benefit from this change.
These changes to British nationality law will also allow these groups to acquire British citizenship more easily.