Status Review Unit

[STN7]

Dear all

I have received the following email and I wonder if anyone had ever received anything similar to advise me further what is that could be about please. It came from StatusReviewUnit@homeoffice.gov.uk and I tried to search online for any contact number to call them to see if it is a genuine mail or to get further explanation but found nothing. I have been British for a few years and never been involved in anything at all. Any thoughts please? What to do next?

Dear xxxxxxx

We have correspondence relating to your status in the UK. In order for this to be sent to you via email, we will require you to confirm the following:

Please confirm your Home Office reference number, your date of birth and the date you naturalised.

Kind regards
Xxxxxxx

[secret.simon]

A quick Google search suggests that it is likely genuine.

The Status Review Unit (SRU) is a caseworking unit within Refused Case Management (RCM), a directorate of UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI).
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5.15 SRU is responsible for considering removal of ILR, removal of refugee status, and deprivation of citizenship. Its focus is on fraudulently obtained ILR, refugee status, or citizenship; cessation of refugee status where conditions in the home country have changed; and deprivation of citizenship on the basis of involvement in serious criminality.

Government response to the report above.

[STN7]

Thanks
That sounds so concerning

[CR001]

Thanks
That sounds so concerning

What is your full immigration history in the UK?

[STN7]

Moved to the UK with ex Eu spouse
Got divorced after few years
Got ILR after retained rights
One year after got British Citizenship
Two years ago i sponsored my new non eu spouse and step child who is currently in primary school and new baby was born in the UK but have not applied for their UK passport yet.

[London22]

Moved to the UK with ex Eu spouse
Got divorced after few years
Got ILR after retained rights
One year after got British Citizenship
Two years ago i sponsored my new non eu spouse and step child who is currently in primary school and new baby was born in the UK but have not applied for their UK passport yet.

After reading your immigration history I think they can't trap you into SRU which was made to revoke refugee status,ILR or citizenship.We all know that naturalization is a 2nd class citizenship which can be taken away at any time making any assumption or weird reason.

[STN7]

Does it mean this unit only gets in touch when they take citizenships away? Is that what you mean?
Do you know of any quick way to find out why they were contacting me?

[London22]

Does it mean this unit only gets in touch when they take citizenships away? Is that what you mean?
Do you know of any quick way to find out why they were contacting me?

SRU only contacts you when they want to revoke refugee leave,ILR or citizenship. But you shouldn't worry too much as your case seems strong & just be ready for a fight in the court where they will lose & you could claim for damage & stress this can cause.

[secret.simon]

Moved to the UK with ex Eu spouse
Got divorced after few years
Got ILR after retained rights
One year after got British Citizenship
Two years ago i sponsored my new non eu spouse and step child who is currently in primary school and new baby was born in the UK but have not applied for their UK passport yet.

Based on your immigration history, I would guess that some information was brought to the attention of the SRU - perhaps by the ex EU spouse - that the marriage with the EU citizen was either invalid (perhaps because you were married to somebody else in some other country at the time of your marriage to the ex EU spouse) or otherwise was a "marriage of convenience" entered into solely for the purposes of immigration.

If either of the two scenarios above are the case, your entire immigration journey and consequent naturalisation would come under scrutiny and the latter can be revoked.

We all know that naturalization is a 2nd class citizenship which can be taken away at any time making any assumption or weird reason.

If it makes you feel any better, citizenship can be revoked from any British national, whether they got their British citizenship from naturalisation or otherwise, if "it would be conducive to the public good to deprive the person of his or her British nationality, and that s/he would not become stateless as a result of the deprivation". See Chapter 55 on Deprivation and Nullity of British citizenship on the gov.uk website.

And that can be seen in action when British citizenship was stripped from "Jihadi Jack", a white British citizen born in the UK, who also had Canadian citizenship.

Only a very small number of countries allow their citizenship never to be lost, such as China and Poland (which are the examples that come to mind). And even those can cause issues if a surprised citizen were to be traveling via those countries.

[STN7]

No neither of these two assumptions are valid
It was valid marriage with love and kids just things happened and it broke down.
I am sure it was a mistake or probably just a copy of ex spouse standard letter to inform of the breakdown of the relationship at that time