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If a person has settled status and has been granted British citizenship, can they continue to travel in and out of the UK prior to obtaining a British passport as long as they have attended the citizenship ceremony and been naturalised as a British citizen?

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Published on: 14 May 2021
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Once a non-British or Irish national with Indefinite leave to remain (ILR) is granted British citizenship they will then have the right of abode in the UK and their ILR will fall away.

Section 2(1) of the Immigration Act 1971 (IA 1971) states that a person has the right of abode in the UK if they are a British citizen. Section 1 of IA 1971 provides that ‘All those who are in this Act expressed to have the right of abode in the United Kingdom shall be free to live in, and to come and go into and from, the United Kingdom without let or hindrance…’ and that the Immigration Rules regulate the administration of the Act for regulating the entry into and stay in the UK for persons without the right of abode.

As such, the

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