Naturalisation as a British citizen: concepts and trends
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This briefing gives details about how many foreign citizens acquire British citizenship every year, their demographic characteristics, and the various bases for their grants of British citizenship.
By Dr Scott Blinder
Citizenship grants per year more than doubled from 2000 to 2013 but fell considerably in 2014 and 2015
In 2015, 118,100 foreign citizens naturalised as British citizens. This is down more than 40% from 2013, when citizenship grants reached almost 208,000, the largest annual number since records began in 1962. From 2009 to 2013, citizenship grants averaged 195,800 per year.
According to the Home Office (2014), the 2013 peak in citizenship grants followed an increase in applications in advance of changes to language requirements, while lower numbers of grants in 2014 were at least in part due to the shifting of resources from UK Visas and Immigration to HM Passport Office. The number of decisions made on citizenship applications in 2015 did not increase in line with a...
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