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Over 40,000 British citizenship applications received in Q1 2018

The Home Office has published latest statistics on British citizenship acquisition and grants.  According to the data, over 40,000 citizenship applications in first quarter of 2018 alone, of which

  • 70% of applications received for naturalisation
  • 30% of applications received for registration
  • 5% of applications were refused.
  • India, Pakistan and Poland are the top three nationalities applying for citizenship
  • 6000 applications received for naturalization based on marriage.
  • 55% of applications received for residence based naturalisation
  • 1608 British overseas territories citizenship granted in the British overseas territories in 2017 and 4 citizenships granted for residents of Hong Kong
  • 36,430 British citizenship ceremonies held in London in 2017
  • Over 3000 citizenships refused for bad reputation or character
  • In 2016, 741 british citizens have renounced their nationality.

 

Total Naturalization Registration Granted  Refused or withdrawn  Refusal rate
2018 Q1 40,385 28,201 12,184 45,565 2,550 5%

 

Quarter of grant All grants Naturalisation based on residence Naturalisation based on marriage Registration of minor children related to a British citizen or on a discretionary basis Registration on other
grounds
2018 Q1 45,565 25,223 6,130 10,760 3,452

 

Citizenship by naturalisation

If you’ve lived in the UK for the last 5 years you may be able to:

  • if you’ve had indefinite leave ILR to remain for the last 12 months
  • if you’re from the EEA and you’ve had permanent residence status for the last 12 months

Windrush nationals can apply for citizenship under a special windrush scheme

British citizenship applications received in total from 1987

 

British citizenship applications 2018 Q1
India 4,460
Pakistan 3,195
Poland 2,599
Nigeria 2,422
Romania 1,383
Italy 1,199
Bangladesh 988
France 966
Zimbabwe 954
Germany 876
Ghana 872
South Africa 840
Sri Lanka 815
United States 766
Somalia 765
Iran 754
Philippines 713
Bulgaria 697
Jamaica 621
Spain 620
China 593
Australia 529
Hungary 520
Nepal 490

 

Refusals

British citizenship has been refused for these reasons

Reason for refusal 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Incomplete applications 558 608 827 1,310 1,596 929 530 447 380 414 661 687 728 254 128 52
Parent not a British citizen 531 775 1,100 1,669 2,161 2,533 1,306 1,692 786 627 514 553 510 749 931 300
Not of good character 798 945 1,187 1,663 1,764 1,693 2,667 2,747 2,168 2,369 2,428 2,295 1,095 4,524 5,525 3,119
Delay in replying to enquiries from UKVI 1,269 1,756 1,600 2,161 1,953 2,232 819 584 767 314 306 423 1,234 1,254 1,698 1,319
Residence 3,338 4,277 6,509 6,259 4,740 4,137 2,219 3,651 2,409 2,216 2,105 2,264 1,224 2,825 2,632 1,659
Oath not taken in time 70 115 186 339 105 38 37 26 9 10 0 0 6 14 9 1
Insufficient Knowledge of English and KOL z z z 234 502 2,365 608 267 382 143 103 62 489 531 673 720
Other 363 500 709 896 789 796 548 488 692 483 400 536 423 495 996 544
Total refusals 6,927 8,976 12,118 14,531 13,610 14,723 8,734 9,902 7,593 6,576 6,517 6,820 5,709 10,646 12,592 7,714
British already 1,225 1,395 1,501 1,861 1,442 659 264 285 316 227 281 375 383 312 496 598
Withdrawn 179 184 199 250 257 246 88 64 65 81 80 74 82 125 220 120
Total refused or withdrawn 8,331 10,555 13,818 16,642 15,309 15,628 9,086 10,251 7,974 6,884 6,878 7,269 6,174 11,083 13,308 8,432
Rejected applications z z z 3,261 6,105 255 41 131 200 151 139 97 81 525 1,852 838

 

Renunciations

Renouncing british nationality

  2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Renunciations of British nationality 1,194 755 680 589 601 583 537 568 597 492 609 602 614 428 741 416
Applications for renunciation of British nationality refused 21 11 10 11 9 12 6 14 9 10 18 41 67 62 107 28

 

Prabhu Balakrishnan
Prabhu Balakrishnan
Founder of Citizenship by Investment News. Chief Editor with over 15 years experience in PR and News publishing. He Loves writing about citizenship, residency and wealth migration. CIP Journal is a Leading publication founded in 2017 bringing latest news from CBI/RBI market.

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