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Nationality definition

What does Nationality mean? In legal practice, nationality describes a person’s formal bond with a state for purposes such as immigration status, right of abode, consular protection, sanctions, and conflict of laws. It is a descriptive term used across multiple contexts, with its content set by statute in each jurisdiction. United Kingdom: While often used interchangeably with citizenship, the terms are not identical. The British Nationality Act 1981 recognises several classes of “British national”, including British citizen, British Overseas Territories citizen, British Overseas citizen, British National (Overseas), British subject and British protected person. Only British citizens have the right of abode by virtue of their...

Permission to Travel to the UK: Leave to Enter, Entry Clearance and ETA Requirements, Exceptions, Definition of Entry and Transit

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With the exception of British or Irish citizens, and Commonwealth citizens who hold the right of abode, any person wishing to travel to the UK will generally require leave—meaning permission—to enter (pass through border control) and to remain in the UK. Those who do not require leave to enter are exempt persons, such as diplomats, together with individuals holding a frontier worker permit. The position regarding prior permission to travel for people who need leave has changed following the introduction of the Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) scheme, which commenced in Autumn 2023. The ETA was implemented on a nationality-by-nationality basis, with the rollout completed in April 2025. The Home Office has announced that the scheme will be fully enforced from 25 February 2026. Before the ETA was introduced, people of certain nationalities were not required to obtain permission in advance to come to the UK as a visitor or as a short-term Creative Worker, if they were from a list of specified countries (non-visa nationals) and were not intending to remain in the UK for longer than six months...

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