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The primary law governing nationality in the United Kingdom is the British Nationality Act 1981, which came into force on 1 January 1983. Regulations apply to the British Islands, which include the UK itself (England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland) and the Crown dependencies (Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man); and the 14 British Overseas Territories.
British nationality and the union itself stem from the union of England and Scotland in 1707. Following agreement on a Treaty of Union, identical Acts of Union were passed by the parliaments of England and Scotland. The Acts describe England and Scotland as having been "United into One Kingdom" 4.
An Act to make fresh provision about citizenship and nationality, and to amend the Immigration Act 1971 as regards the right of abode in the United Kingdom. The British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning British nationality since 1 January 1983.
British Nationality Act 1948. The Commonwealth Heads of Government decided in 1948 to embark on a major change in the law of nationality throughout the Commonwealth, following Canada's decision to enact its own citizenship law in 1946. Until then all Commonwealth countries, with the exception of the Irish Free State (see Irish nationality law ...
v. t. e. Nationality is the legal status of belonging to a particular nation, defined as a group of people organized in one country, under one legal jurisdiction, or as a group of people who are united on the basis of culture. [1][2][3] In international law, nationality is a legal identification establishing the person as a subject, a national ...
Net migration into the UK during 2022 is reported to have reached a record high of 764,000, [10] with immigration at 1.26 million and emigration at 493,000. [11] Net migration was 685,000 in 2023. Of the 1,218,000 migrants in 2023, only 10% were citizens of EU member states.
Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL (born 26 March 1941) [ 3 ] is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author. [ 4 ] He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008. His 1976 book The Selfish Gene popularised the gene ...
Andrew Ng. Andrew Yan-Tak Ng (Chinese: 吳恩達; born 1976) is a British-American computer scientist and technology entrepreneur focusing on machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). [2] Ng was a cofounder and head of Google Brain and was the former Chief Scientist at Baidu, building the company's Artificial Intelligence Group into a ...