Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens

14/04/2025

We are delighted to share our updated booklet on Children and their rights to British citizenship:
https://prcbc.org/updated-booklet-children-and-their-rights-to-british-citizenship/
We are grateful to the late Benjamin Zephaniah for his powerful foreword, Chris Riddell for his beautiful illustrations and Esmee Fairbairn Foundation for funding this update.
Limited numbers of hardcopies are available via [email protected]. We welcome donations to our young people’s hardship fund:
https://donate.justgiving.com/charity/prcbc/donation-amount

Updated booklet: Children and their rights to British citizenship Apr 13, 2025 We are delighted to share our updated booklet on Children and their rights to British citizenship. We are grateful to the late Benjamin Zephaniah for his powerful foreword, Chris Riddell for his beautiful illustrations an...

03/04/2024

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13/03/2024

Court of Appeal delivered judgment in Roehrig v SSHD. This case concerns the meaning of 'settled' in the British Nationality Act 1981, specifically as this applies to someone born in the UK to an European Citizen parent.
Press Release:
https://prcbc.org/press-release-court-of-appeal-judgment-roehrig-v-sshd/
Practitioner's note at this link:
https://prcbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Roehrig-v-SSHD-Practitioner-Note-12-March-2024.pdf

PRESS RELEASE Mar 13, 2024 Court of Appeal Judgment: Roehrig v SSHD Home Office misunderstood British citizenship laws over several decades – Court of Appeal agrees with High Court ruling Court of Appeal decision handed down on 12 March 2024 agrees with High Court judgment in January 2023. Followi...

08/12/2023

07/12/2023

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:55 pm 4 December 2023

07/12/2023

RIP Benjamin Zephaniah
We will forever be grateful for championing the citizenship rights of people, especially children.
Sending our deepest sympathies to Benjamin Zephaniah’s family.
https://issuu.com/prcbc2022/docs/children_and_their_rights_to_british_citizenship_n

29/11/2023

24/05/2023

🗞️Government new British Nationality Bill
This is intended to confirm people’s 🇬🇧citizenship rights following the change in Home Office’s position concerning how British nationality law applied to people born to EU citizen parents between 1 1/83 -1/10 00

Home Office Introduces New Nationality Law Bill today (24 May 2023)The Government have today introduced the British Nationality (Regularisation of Past Practice) Bill. This is intended to confirm p…