R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Ex parte Margueritte

Subject Matter

NATIONALITY — Registration as citizen — “Overstayer” — Immigrant overstaying limited leave of entry — Subsequent grant of indefinite leave — Whether “ordinarily resident” in United Kingdom while in breach of immigration laws — British Nationality Act 1948, s 5A(3) — Immigration Act 1971, ss 2(5), 33(2), Sch 1, paras 1, 2, AppA

[1983] QB 180; [1982] 3 WLR 754