The period before a citizenship ceremony

[creampuff]

This really is a hypothetical question. It does not apply to me or anyone I know.

I'm wondering what happens in the period between when the Home Office approves an application for naturalisation as a British Citizen and the ceremony when one becomes a British Citizen, if the person commits an offence which would have disqualified them had it happened prior to submitting a citizenship application.

Eg someone has their citizenship application approved then gets busted driving without insurance. Or busted stealing a frozen chicken from Tesco etc etc.

[VR]

Folks,

This is an interesting question!

However having said that if the offence was major like a murder, molestation or bank robbery or something which puts the public at risk, they could withdraw the citizenship and initiate deportation proceedings.

I am interested in finding out if there have been cases like this or is it just brave posturing by the home office ''Citizenship is not a privilege, it has to be earned'' and what happens when say the OP has surrendered his original passport? How do they deal with such cases?

Any comments welcome!
cheers
vr

[Ayyubi72]

HO will not consider deprivation, when the deprivation will render a person stateless.

So, for eg, once an Indian Citizen become naturalised, he loses Indian Citizenship automatically, even if they have not surrendered their Indian passport. So, now HO will not deprive him of British Citizenship because this will lead to person become stateless.

[Ayyubi72]

This really is a hypothetical question. It does not apply to me or anyone I know.

I'm wondering what happens in the period between when the Home Office approves an application for naturalisation as a British Citizen and the ceremony when one becomes a British Citizen, if the person commits an offence which would have disqualified them had it happened prior to submitting a citizenship application.

Eg someone has their citizenship application approved then gets busted driving without insurance. Or busted stealing a frozen chicken from Tesco etc etc.

Examples of the offences you have mentioned will not create problems between approval and ceremony.

[neoseal]

It is very very very rare HO will deprive someone of citizenship, as Ayyubi mentioned it will render a person stateless. Further, if someone commits crime here, they would like the trial to be held here and punish here as well.

[Amber]

If they found out before the ceremony took place, they would attempt to stop the ceremony, if they managed this, the application would be put on hold until the criminal case is decided. It'd be difficult to imagine such a scenario.

[VR]

So the moral of the story is do not celebrate until the fat lady finally sings!!

[Ayyubi72]

I already said that in another post.

"It ain't over until the fat lady sings"