Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe
Revocation of Naturalized Citizenship
Naturalized citizenship may be revoked judicially in exceptionally serious cases such as fraudulent naturalization, treason or terrorism.
Policy catalogueNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe
Agreed Policy
Naturalized Citizenship and Exceptionally Serious Crime
Acquired citizenship may be revoked for a narrowly defined class of exceptionally grave crimes, followed by removal where the resulting nationality and return requirements can be lawfully implemented.
Position
Naturalization does not place every later act beyond nationality law. The proposed constitutional order permits revocation of acquired citizenship for specified exceptionally grave post-naturalization conduct, while keeping ordinary criminality within the criminal-justice system.
Policy
- Limit this power to an enumerated class of exceptionally serious crimes such as intentional murder, rape, aggravated child sexual abuse, terrorism and comparable grave offences.
- Require a final criminal conviction before crime-based citizenship revocation.
- Require a separate nationality proceeding determining whether the statutory revocation conditions are met.
- Provide a meaningful appeal before removal is executed.
- Where citizenship is revoked and the person possesses or can lawfully recover another nationality, apply the ordinary return framework.
- Where nationality is disputed, conduct nationality determination rather than assuming that birthplace alone proves a state must accept the person.
- Do not use ancestry alone as the criminal-law trigger; the operative distinction is acquired citizenship plus qualifying conduct.
Implementation note
Implementation note
The 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness generally prohibits deprivation of nationality where it would render a person stateless, subject to defined exceptions including nationality obtained by fraud and certain retained grounds under Article 8. A broader power would require explicit treatment of those treaty commitments. Destroying a passport does not itself erase nationality; a passport is evidence of nationality, not the legal source of nationality.
Related positions
- Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe
Probationary Naturalization
Newly acquired citizenship is subject to a ten-year probationary period with enhanced revocation rules for narrowly defined grave grounds.
- Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe
Criminal Deportation and Re-entry Bans
Serious non-citizen offenders are removed after the criminal process and permanently excluded; ordinary immigration violations normally attract a ten-year re-entry ban.
- Agreed PolicyGovernment, Justice and Public Order
Criminal Sentencing
Punishment should be proportionate to gravity and culpability, protect society, provide restitution where possible and pursue rehabilitation where realistic.
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