{"id":89642,"date":"2026-05-25T14:56:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89642"},"modified":"2026-05-25T14:56:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:56:59","slug":"migrants-rush-to-secure-british-citizenship-before-shabana-mahmoods-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/25\/migrants-rush-to-secure-british-citizenship-before-shabana-mahmoods-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrants rush to secure British citizenship before Shabana Mahmood&#8217;s crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA23Zls3.img?w=590&amp;h=393&amp;m=6&amp;x=178&amp;y=95&amp;s=198&amp;d=198\" alt=\"FRANCE-BRITAIN-POLITICS-POLICE-MIGRANTS\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/english-channel-migrant-crossings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Migrants<\/a>\u00a0are flooding the Home Office with applications for British\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/politics\/2182019\/Migrants-benefits-welfare-Labour-Reform-Nigel-Farage-Keir-Starmer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">citizenship<\/a>\u00a0in record numbers as they seek to beat anticipated restrictions on settlement rights under\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/shabana-mahmood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Labour<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/migrants-rush-to-secure-british-citizenship-before-shabana-mahmood-s-crackdown\/ar-AA23ZgXO?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6a1452b48b8b42c09a6d7e3706af5dca&amp;cvpid=cbee29efcf8a44b9afaa9c1cc09eb6a4&amp;ei=5\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Migrants\u00a0are flooding the Home Office with applications for British\u00a0citizenship\u00a0in record numbers as they seek to beat anticipated restrictions on settlement rights under\u00a0Labour&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-immigration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/boat-migrants.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89643,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89642\/revisions\/89643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}