Ms Emma DeSouza:

It requires that a person proves that he or she is British as well, so being born in Northern Ireland does not constitute as evidence of being a British citizen in that context. A person has to provide his or her parents' birth certificates, and their marriage certificates, and the knock-on effect of that system is that the trauma is often passed on then to the whole family - an Irish family then has to accept that they are all British in order for their son or daughter to renounce being British. That is the path the Home Office would really prefer that I take.