Citizenship

A man whose application for citizenship was rejected because he spent 100 days outside the State in the year prior to his application has lost an application for judicial review of the decision in the High Court. Finding that the requirement for "one year's continuous residence in the State immediat

The Home Office has been granted a six-month adjournment in the First-tier Tribunal in a high-profile dispute over an Irish woman's access to a UK immigration scheme for EU nationals. Immigration rights campaigner Emma DeSouza is currently fighting to bring her husband to Northern Ireland

Professor Colin Harvey, an expert in human rights at QUB School of Law, has been announced as a speaker at a Belfast rally in support of a woman's campaign to be treated as an Irish citizen. Immigration rights campaigner Emma DeSouza is currently fighting to bring her husband to Northern Ireland as

Two people who came to Ireland as refugees but subsequently naturalised as Irish citizens have failed in their court bid to access the family reunification scheme. Ms Justice Marie Baker, sitting in the Court of Appeal, today handed down judgment in the test cases ‘MAM’ and ‘KN&rsq

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has affirmed that EU member states can, where certain conditions are met, remove citizenship from dual nationals even if that would lead to them losing their EU citizenship status. European judges said EU law does not preclude the loss of nationality