The Immigration and Nationality (Cost Recovery Fees) Regulations 2012

Regulation 4

SCHEDULE 2 FEES FOR APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES IN CONNECTION WITH NATIONALITY

Fees for applications and services in connection with nationality

1.—(1) Table 12 specifies the amount of fees for the applications and services listed in the second column of that table.

(2) The fees specified in Table 12 are subject to paragraph 2 (Multiple declarations of renunciation of British citizenship).

Table 12 (Fees)

Number of fee	Type of application or service	Amount of fee
12.1	Fees for applications in connection with nationality
12.1.1	Application for the amendment of a certificate of registration or naturalisation other than where the amendment is required to rectify errors made by the United Kingdom Border Agency.	£88
12.1.2	Application for the reconsideration of an application for registration or naturalisation which has been refused by the Secretary of State.	£80
12.1.3	Application for a certificate of entitlement within the meaning of section 33(1) of the 1971(1) Act where the application is made in respect of an applicant who is in the United Kingdom.	£165
12.1.4	Application for a certificate of entitlement within the meaning of section 33(1) of the 1971 Act where the application is made in respect of an applicant who is outside the United Kingdom.	£270
12.1.5	Application for a letter or other document confirming a person’s nationality status or that a person is not a British citizen.	£88
12.2	Fees for services in connection with nationality
12.2.1	Registration of a declaration of a renunciation of British citizenship under section 12 of the 1981 Act.	£229
12.2.2	Registration of a declaration of a renunciation of British overseas territories citizenship under sections 12 and 24 of the 1981 Act.	£229
12.2.3	Registration of a declaration of a renunciation of British overseas citizenship under sections 29 and 12 of the 1981 Act.	£229
12.2.4	Registration of a declaration of a renunciation of the status of British subject under sections 34 and 12 of the 1981 Act.	£229
12.2.5	Registration of a declaration of a renunciation of the status of British protected person under Article 11 of the 1982 Order(2).	£229
12.2.6	The supply of a certified copy of a notice, certificate, order, declaration or entry given, granted or made under the 1981 Act, any of the former nationality Acts within the meaning of section 50 (1) of the 1981 Act, or the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1997(3).	£88
12.3	Fees for services in connection with citizenship ceremonies and citizenship oaths
12.3.1	The arrangement of a citizenship ceremony (including the administration of a citizenship oath and pledge at the ceremony).	£80
12.3.2	The administration of a citizenship oath, or oath and pledge where the oath, or oath and pledge, are not administered at a citizenship ceremony or by a justice of the peace.	£5

Multiple declarations of a renunciation of British citizenship

2.  Where a person—

(a) makes a declaration of renunciation for which the fee is specified in Table 12; and

(b) at the same time makes another such declaration of renunciation;

the total fee payable in respect of those declarations shall be the same as that for registration of a single declaration.

Responsibility for paying the fee for the arrangement of a citizenship ceremony

3.—(1) The fee specified in Table 12 for the arrangement of a citizenship ceremony is payable by the person who is required by section 42 of the 1981 Act(4) to make a citizenship oath and pledge at a citizenship ceremony.

(2) Where the fee for the arrangement of a citizenship ceremony is not paid in accordance with sub-paragraph (1), the Secretary of State will not consider any related application for registration or naturalisation made by the person responsible for paying that fee.

Refunds of fees for the arrangement of a citizenship ceremony where an application is refused or the requirement to attend the ceremony is disapplied

4.  Where the fee specified in Table 12 for the arrangement of a citizenship ceremony is paid in accordance with paragraph 3 it must be refunded where—

(a) the Secretary of State refuses to arrange the citizenship ceremony; or

(b) the Secretary of State decides that the registration should be effected or the certificate of naturalisation should be granted, but disapplies the requirement to make a citizenship oath and pledge at a citizenship ceremony because of the special circumstances of the case.

(1)

The definition of “certificate of entitlement” was added by section 10(5)(b) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41).

(2)

S.I. 1982/1070.

(3)

1997 c. 20.

(4)

Section 42 was substituted by section 3 of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to, the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41).