Please Contact Your MP

Let them know you are against the current discrimination against allowing a path to citizenship for children born out of wedlock to British fathers. This affects those children born before July 1, 2006.

We have made it easy by displaying a direct link on the right hand side of this site. Simply click on it and enter your postcode. Your MP's contact information will come up.

You can copy and paste the following message. Feel free to add your personal touch if you'd like, especially if you are currently affected by this discrimination. All correspondence to your elected official lets the government know there is support to change the current discriminatory law.

The NIAA 2002 allowed unmarried British fathers to pass citizenship to their children if they were born after July 1, 2006. Any child born before that date cannot be registered for citizenship.

As those born before that date can not be registered, they are clearly being discriminated against due to their status as illegitimate children. It is also discrimination on the basis of gender against British men. The Borders, Citizenship, and Immigration bill is currently in the House of Commons. Amendment 47: Legitimacy was added during the Lord's stage to correct this discrimination and allow registration of illegitimate children born before 2006.

Unfortunately, the amendment was removed as the government wants to "consider it further". This is unacceptable. Once the Borders bill reaches royal assent, every single child born to a British parent will have a path to citizenship -- except those born out of wedlock to British fathers before 2006. It's time to remove this discrimination once and for all.

Please work to have this amendment added back onto the current Borders bill. Please remove all cut off dates and allow children born out of wedlock to British fathers, regardless of the year they were born, the opportunity to register for British citizenship. If not, then allow leave to remain in the UK, for any child born before 2006 to an unmarried British father. Anything which allows a fair path to citizenship.