What might disqualify you?
❌ Unpaid NHS bills
❌ Being “associated” with someone under suspicion
❌ Past minor offences, even if “spent”
❌ “Notoriety” — or having a media presence

Read our report on the good character requirement: lnkd.in/e3jkWJfT

Read the full report here: www.rightsandsecurity.org/impact/entry...

We found evidence that the Home Office is applying the requirement in a way that disproportionately impacts not only people from the Windrush generation – many of whom are Black or Asian – but also Muslims and people from Muslim-majority countries.

‘Good character’ is not defined in UK nationality law, and although Home Office caseworkers have detailed guidance for assessing applications, the Home Secretary has total discretion to grant or refuse citizenship to people on this basis.

In the report, we conclude that the UK adopted and then maintained the ‘good character’ requirement precisely because it allows for subjective and potentially discriminatory decision-making – and not in spite of those risks.

Parliament has imposed the ‘good character’ requirement through varying, but always vague, laws since 1915, and those laws continue to impact thousands of people today, including children from the age of 10 and members of the Windrush generation.

“It could also lead to a feedback loop in which autistic children are increasingly over-policed, with lasting consequences.”

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

“Instead, the Ofsted trainings draw a target on autistic children based on what look to us like sweeping and simplistic statements. This could amount to direct and illegal discrimination...

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Sarah St Vincent, the executive director of RSI, which obtained the document through a freedom of information request, said: “The government has not shown that autistic children are any more likely to pose a serious threat of violence than anyone else is.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

A training manual used to teach hundreds of school inspectors also claims that children who are autistic are “more likely to develop special interests” and “can be drawn into extremism” as a result.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

These deeply flawed practices – showing a seeming indifference to potential ableism, racism, Islamophobia and other discrimination – have persisted for years.

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These documents also point to incoherent and, in our view, careless approaches to assessing Prevent’s other equality impacts, particularly where race and religion are concerned.

The letter states that a 2021 internal Home Office analysis obtained under the Freedom of Information Act found that more than a quarter of those receiving deradicalisation support from the Channel programme had either been diagnosed or had a suspected diagnosis of autism.

There are concerns that autistic people are being referred to the authorities because of a lack of healthcare provision.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Ruth ha expuesto valientemente la corrupción y las violaciones de derechos humanos bajo el gobierno de Bukele. Su detención es alarmante y no debe ser ignorada.