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Campaigners back in court to challenge the citizenship fees ‘pricing children out of their rights’
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CAMPAIGNERS are back in the courts this week to challenge a £1,012 citizenship fee they claim is “pricing children out of their rights.” 

The High Court ruled last year that the huge fee was unlawful, finding a “mass of evidence” showing that the sum prevented many children from registering for British citizenship, leaving them feeling “alienated,” “excluded” and “not fully assimilated into the culture and social fabric of the UK.”

But the Home Office appealed against the decision, which was heard today in the Court of Appeal. 

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