United Kingdom - Passport & Nationality - NEW - British Citizenship by Discretion (4L Mother Protectorate)
This solution has become available because of new legislation to remedy gender discrimination in the old British nationality law. Broadly, it requires:
- applicant born between 1 January 1949 and 31 December 1982;
- applicant's mother born before 1 January 1949 in a former British Protectorate, Protected State, Trust or Mandated Territory;
- applicant's parents married before the independence of the mother's country of birth;
- applicant's paternal grandmother born in the UK.
PLEASE NOTE: This law gained Royal Assent on Thursday 28 April 2022, and is expected to become effective in the months following this date (around October 2022). However, we will be taking on cases now on a strictly first-come, first-serve basis in anticipation of this implementation date. This is because we will include a formal assessment of the applicant´s nationality status and an opinion on the likely success of their application, as well as setting out the documents that the home Office will require.