The Home Office today collection of guidance documents used by UK Visas and Immigration when deciding applications for British nationality. These documents are an essential read for anyone intending to go through this process. These applications attract exorbitant Home Office fees and some pre-application research may go some way to avoiding the financial hit of a refusal.
Section 1: Requirements and considerations common to all types of British nationality
This section contains information on common aspects of nationality policy and processes that apply to the applications for all types of British nationality.
Adoption: nationality policy guidance
Assessing ordinary residence: nationality policy guidance
Domicile: nationality policy guidance
British nationals: nationality policy guidance
Deprivation and nullity of British citizenship: nationality policy guidance
Full capacity requirement: nationality policy guidance
Good character: nationality policy guidance
Identity: nationality policy guidance
Renunciation of all types of British nationality: nationality policy guidance
Surrogacy: nationality policy guidance
Children of unmarried parents: nationality procedure guidance
Level of decision making: nationality procedure guidance
Passports (handling): nationality procedure guidance
Priority treatment requests: nationality procedure guidance
Section 2: British citizenship
This section contains guidance on how to consider an application to naturalise, or register as a British citizen.
Automatic acquisition: nationality policy guidance
British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1997: nationality policy guidance
Children of British parents: nationality policy guidance
Children: nationality policy guidance
Renunciation of British citizenship: nationality policy guidance
Naturalisation as a British citizen by discretion: nationality policy guidance
Other British nationals: nationality policy guidance
Stateless persons: nationality policy guidance
Section 3: Right of Abode
This section contains guidance on how to consider whether an individual has the right of abode in the UK.
Right of abode: nationality policy guidance
Section 4: British overseas territories citizens (BOTC)
This section contains guidance on how to consider an application to naturalise or register as a British overseas territories citizen.
Automatic acquisition – BOTC: nationality policy guidance
British overseas territories citizens – descent: nationality policy guidance
Naturalisation as a BOTC: nationality policy guidance
Registration as a BOTC – children: nationality policy guidance
Registration as a BOTC – following renunciation: nationality policy guidance
Registration as a BOTC – stateless: nationality policy guidance
Section 5: British overseas citizens
This section contains guidance on how to consider an application to naturalise or register as a British overseas citizen.
British overseas citizens: nationality policy guidance
Section 6: British subjects
This section contains guidance on British subject status.
British subjects: nationality policy guidance
Section 7: British nationals overseas
This section contains guidance on British nationals overseas.
British nationals (overseas): nationality policy guidance
Section 8: British protected persons
This section contains guidance on British protected persons.
British protected persons: nationality policy guidance
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