Good news for South Africans who want British citizenship – here’s who could qualify

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Good news for South Africans who want British citizenship – here’s who could qualify
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New avenues to get British citizenship have opened for South Africans with immigration consultants from Breytenbachs outlining who may qualify.

New avenues for British citizenship have opened for South Africans, with the UK introducing laws enabling many people who have not previously qualified for British citizenship to now be able to qualify.said the new Nationality and Borders Act is causing a stir in the immigration world after being passed by the British parliament in April this year.

The part of the act focused on nationality seeks to remedy past injustices in the law. The new act aims to put persons in the position who would have automatically become British citizens had the past laws been just and fair, said Breytenbachs. The new laws aim to address the historic inability of mothers and unmarried fathers to pass on citizenship, register persons as citizens who could not do so due to historical injustice and implement a discretionary waiver of residence criteria for naturalisation .

Were married before 1983 to a person who had a family link back to the UK or a former British territory.is currently piloting a project to ease passport renewals for people living in the UK.

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