snooky wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2020 7:53 pm
I think there's a way out to naturalize as you were born here.
Under the British nationality Action 1981 Section 1(4).
Anyone who has born here and lived here for 10 years irrespective of your age and how the 10 years was accumulated could be Registered discriminatory under section 1(4).
I am afraid, that as both
@alterhase58 and
@CR001 have pointed out above, the OP can't apply under Section 1(4). Did you actually read the Section?
Section 1 of the British Nationality Act 1981 wrote:(4)A person born in the United Kingdom
after commencement who is not a British citizen by virtue of subsection (1), (1A) or (2) shall be entitled, on an application for his registration as a British citizen made at any time after he has attained the age of ten years, to be registered as such a citizen
if, as regards each of the first ten years of that person’s life, the number of days on which he was absent from the United Kingdom in that year does not exceed 90.
You are correct that if Section 1(4) is engaged, it is a life-long entitlement to register as a British citizen.
But, as
@CR001 pointed out, Section 1(4) does not apply to the OP as he was born before commencement of the BNA 1981 (the commencement date for most provisions of that Act is 1st January 1983).
And, as
@alterhase58 has pointed out, it is the
first ten years of the person's life that need to be spent in the UK to trigger the provisions of the Act, not any ten years.
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