patriality
(British, immigration) The right to reside in the United Kingdom, free from the constraints of immigration policy.
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(British, immigration) The right to reside in the United Kingdom, free from the constraints of immigration policy.
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- patrial84%
(UK) Relating to the right of abode in the United Kingdom by having a British parent or grandparent.
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(UK) One who has the right of abode in the United Kingdom by having a British parent or grandparent.
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A legal term introduced by Britain's Immigration Act 1971 to describe Commonwealth citizens who did not have the right of abode in the UK—contrasted with 'patrials' (those with a parent or grandparent born in Britain). The patrial/nonpatrial distinction was widely criticised as covertly racial in its effect, limiting immigration from New Commonwealth countries.
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(UK) One who is not a patrial.
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(Canada, transitive) To assume control of (a governmental power) from a former mother country.