Foreign nationals are being handed a British passport every two minutes after a sharp jump in approvals for citizenship, the Daily Telegraph reports.
A total of 54,430 migrants were granted British citizenship between July and September this year – the equivalent of more than 600 people every day. It means the country remains on course to hand out more than 200,000 passport to foreign workers, family members and others who have been allowed to settle in …

Immigrants will finally be made to take a British history test under plans to slash the number of passports handed out to foreigners each year, the Daily Mail reports.
It ends a four-year refusal by the Home Office to make migrants applying for citizenship prove they have studied the country’s traditions and learnt about figures such as Sir Winston Churchill. Officials had previously claimed that Britain had “too much” history and a test would not be fair.
The …

Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan writes in his blog that if US President Barack Obama was really born in Kenya, as many suspect, he would be a British subject and therefore he could reunify USA and UK.
“If the forty-fourth president was indeed, as the “birthers” aver, born in Kenya in 1961, he would have been born a British subject,” Hannan writes. “Perhaps his entire career is a clever scheme to bring the colonists’ rebellion to an …

Immigrants who want a British passport will have a better chance if they agree to move to Scotland under absurd new Home Office plans, the Daily Mail reports.
The Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy revealed that if immigrants were willing to live in under-populated parts of Britain, they would find it easier to pass the test. “Having lived and worked in Scotland is proposed as one way to earn points,” he said.
Critics point out it will be …

In an outrageous development it has emerged that migrants will get a British passport quicker if they stand on picket lines or knock on doors, asking people to vote for Labour, the Daily Mail reports.
The Home Office, which was up to only recently led by infamous money-waster Jacqui Smith, says that trade union activism and political canvassing should count towards the planned new system of ‘earned citizenship’, according to the newspaper.
Migrants who complete 50 hours …