How on earth do you "void" the passport of someone who was born and raised here?

The state cannot simply make a British citizen stateless, no matter what crimes they may have committed.

You've come up with some wild [is[/ihit it the past but this surpasses anything previous

Not one born here, no, but a naturalised one, yes. And apparently in recent times the Home Secretary has served at least 27 Notices of Deprivation, doing exactly that, regardless.

By an astonishing co-incidence, at least 2 of those were killed by US drones shortly afterwards.

But, we did in 1961 sign up to the UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, so that's all right.

I thought passports can be confiscated/cancelled without any need for any legal process does it not say that inside your passport? Is the issue of the passport not at the discretion on the Home Office?

What does the 1961 convention state ?

Nigel Farage has been promoting himself as a sage on everything on TV again by declaring that there is a law still in force from the 1870s that allows the country to remove citizenship from anyone found to be guilty of aiding a foreign state, he believes it was used in the two world wars for anyone who opted to fight for Germany (for instance).

Its possible that Nigel may not have researched the subject properly though.

If the guy carrying out that execution was born and raised in Britain, and has a British passport, then he is technically Brtish, regardless of his actions.

Still a horrible c*nt, though.

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How is this relevant? It is not compulsory for any British citizen to ever hold a passport, and cancellation of a passport is irrelevant to nationality.

That's what I thought too. The Home Office or Border Agency or whoever is in charge of passports presumably could quite easily cancel their passports.

But they can't have their citizenship taken away.

I'm at a loss to understand what use cancelling passports would be.

Well it can't do any harm to try and restrict their movements should they try to. But identifying exactly who they are could be very difficult.

The 2014 Immigration Act allows those who acquired citizenship by registration or naturalisation to have it removed on the basis of certain conduct, so a full examination of this guy's past, if they ever work out who he is, would be needed. In any case it can only be done if the Home Sec believes that the person can then become a national of another country. Not sure if that has all been enacted yet but it will be soon, I think.

Cancelling a passport would restrict travel as the cancellation would come up at an airport immigration scan, and so entry to wherever, if being done properly, could be denied, and potentially the person could be arrested. Alternatively we have a load of British terrorists wandering round airside like Tom Hanks

It is in force, but the point is (and most likely the psychopath was chosen for the job for the same reason) about British-born jihadists.



Not following this; if we know who he is then he could be detained by ANY border agency which detected a flag against his name, what would cancelling his passport add? It might even make it worse, as surely if the flag said "suspected psychopath terrorist" then the relevant border agency might act in one way, whereas if all they thought they were dealing with is some guy with a cancelled passport, they might not be ready with appropriate security.
The discussion on this started with the suggestion from Dita's thatOur authorities know who these scum are who are signing up for this 'holy' war - Simply, their passports should be voided and they should never ever step foot back in this country (if they attempt it).'"

True. Wasn't aware that part was actually in force yet as a lot of the other provisions of the act start in October. As you say, British-born nutters aren't affected though.


Cancelling the passport might prevent him or anyone actually getting on a plane in the first place, but governments don't necessarily share their suspect index lists, so if they tried to get a plane in Russia for example they might not know how dodgy he was. Cancelling the passport would flag up a problem to anyone though.

It's pretty moot anyway as there may well be some sort of accident befalling him while he is being arrested, if the airstrikes don't get him first.



I'm sure they'd keep hold of him too, but he'd have to prove he was British to gain entry. With no passport, or a cancelled one, how would he do that? The current immigration climate would suggest that a person with dark skin and no proof of identity or nationality might well end up in a detention centre before being sent back whence he came. Must admit I've never tried to get through immigration without some proper acceptable proof that I'm British.

If HMG decided that all those ISIS guys out there were not welcome back in the UK, could we not simply refuse entry on terrorism grounds?

Personally, I'd ship any who tried off on the first available flight to Cuba for our american chums to play with.....

which would make us as barbaric as them.