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UK: Refusal and revocation of British citizenship for dishonest conduct

18 January 2016

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"In another reminder that British citizenship can be refused on the basis of past dishonest conduct we have the case of R (on the application of Rushiti & Anor v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] EWHC 3931 (Admin). This one dates back a few months but I’m afraid I only just found it in my drafts folder. It involves two linked cases, both of which are further examples of Albanians entering the UK and pretending to be Kosovar, eventually obtaining immigration status then applying for British citizenship. (...)

I originally drafted this post just as I was reviewing Eric Fripp’s The Law and Practice of Expulsion and Exclusion from the United Kingdom and was rather surprised to learn that there were zero recorded instances of citizenship deprivation on the basis of dishonesty between 1983 and 2009, but in 2009 there were 30 such decisions. All or almost all are said by the authors to be Albanian/Kosovar cases. Since then, the numbers seem to have been steadily increasing.

The deprivation of citizenship — the exclusion of perceived undesirables from our polity — is one of the most important trends of our time."

See: Refusal and revocation of British citizenship for dishonest conduct (Free Movement, link)

And: Judgment: Rushiti & Anor v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] EWHC 3931 (November 2014, pdf)

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