The Home Office has announced that it will waive the £1,012 fee it had been charging for children to register as British citizens in cases of hardship and poverty.
The move came just hours after the New Statesman revealed on 26 May that the Home Office had profited by £240m from the fees since 2010. The administration cost was only £416, so the department made £596 for each child that applied.
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