news.bbc.co.uk - 8/3/2009
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People who want to become British citizens could speed it up by becoming active members of political parties and trade unions, under government plans. Migrants would have to earn points for citizenship under the new system rather than getting an automatic right to apply for citizenship after ...
fistfulofeuros.net - 8/6/2009
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Sitting in the other day on a citizenship
ceremony - a few dozen people from all round...
the world (Sierra Leone, Poland, Turkey, Bangladesh, Somalia, Cambodia, Nepal and the rest) becoming British citizens, with a fairly low level of ceremony. Holst on the dodgy CD player and the deputy mayor of ...
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... Migrants who have worked in the UK for five years have had the automatic right to apply for a British passport, which, immigration minister Phil Woolas told the BBC, was usually granted… ...
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A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of Euros —
... I’m not even going to suggest a common European myth. The mind boggles. But people become citizens for a reason, and it’s not just because they long for the chance to sit in a British jury box - the people I saw seemed to regard their citizenship as a prize worth the gaining. Maybe the British common myth is doing fine among its newest believers, at any rate, without any encouragement.
The issue’s also been on my mind because of the introduction of points-based tests for immigration, which has attracted some criticism. (Its merger with the ...
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