The Claimants challenge by judicial review the refusal of the SSHD to grant them citizenship by naturalisation. They each satisfy the statutory requirements for naturalisation but the SSHD exercised her statutory discretion to refuse naturalisation because she wanted to deter potential extremists from their activities through knowing that family members would not be naturalised in consequence.
Ouseley J
[2015] EWHC 3513 (Admin), [2015] WLR(D) 503
Bailii, WLRD
Administrative
Updated: 07 January 2022; Ref: scu.556472