Evaluating Claims

1. We normally follow this process:
   Find out if you (or your child or spouse) are already a British citizen or another type of British national. This entails a thorough investigation of family history (known as a “Status Trace”) performed by our system to find if any acquisition rules benefitted your case. This normally happens in three steps:
   1. Conduct an evaluation and prepare a Nationality Report which includes a Status Trace explaining how the client is an existing British citizen or other British national by reference to all applicable facts and rules of law and evidence.
   2. If the outcome is positive, prepare and make the legal argument for the application and supporting evidence to the Home Office (branch of the UK government handling nationality) for official recognition.
   3. If the application succeeds, the Home Office issues a certificate confirming recognition of the person’s nationality. This can then be used to obtain a British passport.
2. Find out if you (or your child or spouse) qualify for registration as a British citizen or other British national. This process also entails a Status Trace and thorough investigation of the applicable rules as follows:
   1. Conduct an evaluation and identify any application category the client qualifies for and which has the lowest Home Office fee (fees range from under £100 to over £750).
   2. Prepare a Nationality Report which includes a legal opinion explaining why the applicant qualifies for registration by reference to all applicable facts rules of law and evidence.
   3. If the outcome is positive, prepare and make the legal argument for the application and supporting evidence to the Home Office (branch of the UK government handling nationality) for official recognition.
   4. If the application succeeds the Home Office registers the person as a British citizen and issues a certificate, which can be used to obtain a British passport.

If you would like us to establish your claim to British nationality then submit your details in the form below and purchase an evaluation and report.

It is possible to appeal against a refusal, though some types of review must be lodged within a time limit. An “administrative review” can be lodged at any time, even for an application made many years ago. This can even be done for categories limited to minors even though the applicant is aged well over 17 years.

A review is only likely to succeed if it can be proven that the refusal was made on the wrong grounds or if new evidence is supplied or in some cases if current policies are more favourable. An application for review has to be very well presented and argued to have a reasonable chance of success.