Submitted on Wednesday 1st December 2021
Rejected on Tuesday 7th December 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Prevent the UK Government revoking the British Citizenship of Ethnic Minorities
The British Government has recently and quietly made changes to the ‘Nationality and Borders’ bill.
Through clause 9 they are allowing themselves to deprive you of citizenship in secret and without appeal but only if you are from a minority ethnic background. It is literally racist law-making.
This is because it is illegal under international law to make someone stateless. So the government can only strip ethnic minorities of British citizenship even if they were born here by claiming they can go back to their parents' or grandparents' homeland.
The UK government has clearly not learned the lessons of Windrush. This is the worst type of racist law-making and mustn’t be allowed to exist, let alone to happen without the right of appeal or in secret where the government can’t be challenged.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Remove Clause 9 from the Nationality and Borders Bill: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/601583
Do not remove anyone's British citizenship: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/601611
The Nationality and Borders Bill does contain powers to remove a person's citizenship without giving notice of this, but this power does not apply solely to people of ethnic minorities. These provisions are set out in Clause 9 of the Bill, which you can read here: bills.parliament.uk/bills/3023/publications
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