Tag: citizenship

29th November 2012

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by Leigh Turner

Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna

A proud moment

A guest blog by Nicole Sauvage Utku, British Vice-Consul, Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey This month Robert Murray Jamieson became a British Citizen. Standing proudly in front of the Union Jack he swore allegiance to Her Majesty the Queen and was handed his certificate by HM Consul General, Leigh Turner. Robert was born in Australia in […]

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14th December 2011

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by Paul Madden

British Ambassador to Japan

New British citizens

I had the very pleasant experience today of conducting my first Citizenship Ceremony, in which we conferred British citizenship on seven people at the High Commission in Canberra. They were all Australians who were acquiring citizenship through family links or through naturalisation after living in the UK for some time. It used to be the case […]

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