Ambazonians home and abroad should dump their IDs and apply for British passport under British Protected Person status. (BPP)
Many Ambazonians have been hammering themselves with this question, can they return back to before 1st October 1961? The answer is yes. Not because a few have succeeded like Fongum Gorji-Dinka, it is possible to argue this in a court of law.
“International Law does not regard you (Ambazonians) as people of Cameroonian Nationality; this must be shocking to you.”
(Fongum Gorji-Dinka)
An Ambazonian living in the UK can easily gain this status if he gets the right lawyer. Britain has no constitution and depend on past court judgments to make laws. If a case was passed in the British court in favor of an Ambazonian, then the reference can hold for all Ambazonians.
Out of the UK, one need to travel to the nearest UK embassy or high commission to make the claim,
But have to carefully understand who is a BBP and need to apply through preferably a lawyer. This may be another step to regaining the lost statehood. By acquiring a British passport, it will then be easy for Ambazonians to decide their new fate.
Read the passages below before you can proceed
British Protected Person (BPP)
A British Protected Person is an old colonial status of British Nationality. A birth in a British Protected State would have resulted in the nationality status of "British Protected Person" (commonly referred to as a BPP). This status would have been passed down the MALE LINE ONLY to children of such BPP's.
Whether this status was kept will depend on the Independence Arrangements (and Constitution) of the former British territory from which it stemmed. A case-by-case study must be undertaken before an assessment can be made. It is still possible in the modern to:
claim the BPP status; OR
convert the BPP status into full British Nationality.
Expert UK Immigration and British Nationality Advice
Philip Gamble & Partners are the world’s leading experts in UK immigration and British Nationality. Mr Philip Gamble, the Founder and Managing Partner, specialises in complex claims to British Nationality, including the British Protected Person (BPP) status.
By registration
Registration as a BPP on the basis of descent and residence
A person can apply to be registered as a BPP if:
• either of his or her parents was a BPP at the date of his or her birth, and
he or she:
• was born outside the United Kingdom or its overseas territories,
• has fulfilled the required residence requirement (three years with minimum absence) within the United Kingdom or its overseas territories,
• has never possessed any nationality (including British citizenship, British Overseas Territories citizenship or British Overseas citizenship).
Any person so registered would have lost or will lose their BPP status if they ever acquire or had ever acquired any other nationality.
British nationality and protectorates
Although most people connected with protectorates and protected states did not acquire British subject status there were some exceptions:
• Persons born in a protectorate and some protected states with a British subject father were British subjects by birth (even if the father was a British subject by descent). This exception to normal rules on transmission of British subject status was put on a statutory basis by section 2(1) of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1943.
• On 1 January 1949 any British subject born in a protectorate or a protected state automatically became a Citizen of the UK and Colonies (CUKC) under section 12(3) of the British Nationality Act 1948.
• Governors of protectorates and some protected states had the right under sections 8 and 10 of the British Nationality Act 1948 to register or naturalize persons as Citizens of the UK and Colonies by virtue of a connection to that protectorate or protected state.
Some of these persons may have lost CUKC at independence of the protectorate or protected state concerned. If they retained CUKC they would generally be British citizens or British Overseas citizens.
Loss of BPP status
A British Protected Person who acquires another nationality, voluntarily or otherwise, automatically loses BPP status.
BPPs may be deprived of BPP status on terms similar to those applicable to British citizens.
A BPP may renounce BPP status on the same basis as a British citizen. However, there is no provision to resume BPP status after renunciation.
Ambazonians are left with three options. To stay with La Republique du Cameroun, to Restore their nationhood and have their own identification papers, and to apply for British Passport under BPP status
Fearless Witness
No comments:
Post a Comment