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Toughened-up good character rules will mean the criminality threshold for British citizenship is in line with the government’s Immigration Rules.

• Updated: 30 July 2023

Home Secretary announces that the end date for the Windrush Compensation Scheme has been removed.

• Updated: 21 July 2021

Home Office Minister Kevin Foster attended the UK’s first virtual citizenship ceremony today.

• Updated: 20 July 2020

A tender for to provide assistance to people claiming compensation through the Windrush Compensation Scheme has been launched today (Monday 20 April).

• Updated: 20 April 2020

PSI Services has been awarded the Life in the UK contract by the Home Office, it was announced today.

• Updated: 17 July 2019

Letter from Home Secretary Sajid Javid to Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP, Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC).

• Updated: 17 December 2018

The consultation for the Windrush compensation scheme will now close on 16 November 2018 to ensure that everyone who wants to is able to contribute.

• Updated: 11 October 2018

The Home Secretary has proposed reforms to British citizenship including tougher English language requirements and changes to the Life in the UK test.

• Updated: 2 October 2018

More than 2,000 members of the Windrush generation have been granted citizenship free of charge, the Home Office has confirmed.

• Updated: 21 September 2018

This written ministerial statement was laid in the House of Commons by James Brokenshire MP and in the House of Lords by Lord Taylor of Holbeach.

• Updated: 17 July 2014

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Nationality instructions guidance of a refusal letter to a Gurkha for British citizenship.

• Updated: 17 December 2007