The Home Office has hiked fees sharply for UK nationals to renounce their British nationality, following a Brexit surge in people adopting the citizenship of other European countries.
Ministers were accused of “cashing in on Brexit” and giving Britons living on the continent a “last kick out the door” after it emerged fees were quietly raised to more than £1,000 for a family of three.
Many of the 1.3 million British people living abroad in other EU countries have sought foreign citizenship since the EU referendum in a bid to head-off the uncertainty caused by the decision to leave the bloc.
But with many EU countries, such as the Netherlands and Austria, restricting or entirely banning dual citizenship, some Britons are forced to pay twice: once to apply for costly foreign citizenship and again to renounce their British citizenship.
In April, the Home Office raised the…
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