Interim DUP leader Gavin Robinson’s Bill would allow Irish people to acquire British citizenship by registration after five years’ residence.
The British Nationality Bill would allow Irish people to acquire British citizenship by registration after five years’ residence without having to sit a citizenship test
The legislation would allow Irish people to acquire British citizenship by registration after five years’ residence without having to sit a citizenship test. He told MPs: “Whilst we often talk about the clash between identity and citizenship on these islands, the one piece of the puzzle that has been absent following the Good Friday Agreement when individuals of an Irish identity living in Northern Ireland were freely able and available to attain Irish citizenship, the same has not been true for those born in the Irish Republic but who live in and enjoy and work through the United Kingdom.
By Mr Robinson’s estimation some 30,000 Irish citizens resident in Northern Ireland would be eligible for British citizenship, with a further 200,000 in mainland UK.The MP for East Belfast said the passage of the Bill had seen “continual discussion around fees”. Expressing Labour’s support for the Bill, shadow Home Office minister Alex Norris said: “Indeed following the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and the process put in place to ensure that those from Northern Ireland who wish to gain Irish citizenship would be able to do so, I think many would be surprised to learn that the reciprocal arrangements were not in place to ensure that Irish citizens had a route to British citizenship if they so wished.
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