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There was an immigration case a few months ago which involved a person born in Northern Ireland attempting to use an immigration scheme for her husband which wa
by paddez 6y ago
There was an immigration case a few months ago which involved a person born in Northern Ireland attempting to use an immigration scheme for her husband which was only available to EU Nationals.
Because the British State conferred British Citizenship onto this person upon merely being born in Northern Ireland, despite this person identifying solely as Irish, they were unable to avail of this scheme.
The UK Home Office told this person to renounce their citizenship if they wished to available of this scheme.
(This was all basically nullified by the EU Settlement Scheme coming up to Brexit, but it'll probably rear it's head again)
TL;DR Dual National wanted to avail of an EU Scheme, which was unable to be used by a British Citizen. One solution was to renounce British Citizenship.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/explainer-what-is-the-emma-desouza-case-about-1.4051238 https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/explainer...