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Contact your council to arrange your British citizenship ceremony - fees, venue, application
You can no longer apply for citizenship with permanent residence status. You might be eligible another way.
Apply for citizenship if you have a British overseas territories parent - who's eligible, fees and how to apply.
A collection of application forms for British nationality and to obtain evidence to the right of abode in the UK.
Factsheet giving details of the measures contained in the Nationality and Borders Bill.
Apply for citizenship by naturalisation if you live in the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, a British Overseas Territory or if you live elsewhere and want to apply by post.
How to apply for British citizenship if you’re a person of Chagossian descent: who’s eligible, the documents you need and when you must apply by.
Form to ask UK Visas and Immigration to review its decision to refuse your application for British citizenship.
Active and empowered citizens can participate in decision-making, claim rights and hold institutions to account
A collection of guidance documents used by UK Visas and Immigration when deciding applications for British nationality.
Form to apply for confirmation that you have not gained British citizenship.
Immigration staff guidance on how to consider applications for naturalisation as a British citizen.
Apply for citizenship as a direct descendant of a citizen of the UK and Colonies who was born in the British Indian Ocean Territory.
Apply to give up your British citizenship or another type of British nationality if you live in the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, a British Overseas Territory or if you live elsewhere and want to apply by post.
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