BRIEFING - Citizenship and naturalisation for migrants in the UK www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk

BRIEFING Citizenship and naturalisation for migrants in the UK AUTHORS: Mariña Fernández-Reino Madeleine Sumption Nuni Jorgensen PUBLISHED: 1 5/12/2023 www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk BRIEFING: Citizenship and naturalisation for migrants in the UK This briefing looks at citizenship and naturalisation among migrants in the UK. [...] UK PAGE 3 BRIEFING: Citizenship and naturalisation for migrants in the UK The England and Wales 2021 Census data is used to look in more detail at the characteristics of people who do and do not hold UK citizenship. [...] Lastly, according to the ONS, 93% of the foreign-born population in the UK lived in England and Wales in 2021. [...] UK PAGE 6 BRIEFING: Citizenship and naturalisation for migrants in the UK Figure 3 Migrants who come to the UK on a family visa obtain citizenship faster than those entering with a work or a study visa, but after eight years, workers were the most likely to have become citizens The time it takes to become a citizen varies depending on how the person qualified to come to the UK initially (Figure 4). [...] UK PAGE 18 BRIEFING: Citizenship and naturalisation for migrants in the UK The Migration Observatory Based at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford, the Migration Observatory provides independent, authoritative, evidence-based analysis of data on migration and migrants in the UK, to inform media, public and policy debates, and to generate high quality res.