Who has the right to live in the United Kingdom?
All British citizens have the right of abode in the United Kingdom. Some Commonwealth citizens also have the right of abode. If you wish to claim the right of abode, you must prove it by producing: • a United Kingdom passport describing you as a British citizen or a British subject with the right of abode; or • a United Kingdom identity card describing you as a British citizen or a British subject with the right of abode; or • a certificate of entitlement to the right of abode in the United Kingdom that has been issued by the Government of the United Kingdom or on its behalf What is the restrictions placed for Commonwealth Citizens to claim the right of abode? If you were not a Commonwealth citizen on 31 December 1982 or stopped being a Commonwealth citizen (even temporarily) at any time after that date, you will not have right of abode. For example, citizens of South Africa and Pakistan do not have right of abode because those countries left the Commonwealth before 1983 and joined it
