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The Home Office in Great Britain is waiting for suspected organized crime bosses to leave the country before they are stripped of their British citizenship.
The tactic is being used in cases where police have been unable to prosecute foreign nationals who have obtained British citizenship but are suspected of high involvement in drugs, firearms and people-trafficking.
The Home Office is working with the National Crime Agency (NCA), which provides an intelligence file that the Home Secretary uses to strip an individual of their citizenship if they temporarily leave the country, making it impossible for them to return.
At least two suspects with Albanian citizenship have unsuccessfully tried to appeal the revocations.
In the latest case, the man, whose name cannot be made public for legal reasons, was suspected of organizing the smuggling into the UK of hundreds of illegal Albanian immigrants via trucks and small boats across the Channel.
He entered the UK illegally in 1999 claiming to be a Kosovar refugee and was later granted British citizenship. In early 2020 he was arrested by Kent Police on suspicion of money laundering, but no charges followed.
In September of that year, then Home Secretary Priti Patel made a decision to strip him of his citizenship while on a trip to Albania.
The man appealed to the Special Immigration Appeals Committee (SIAC), but it dismissed his claim after seeing information "sealed" by the NCA.
In 2021, Fation Dauti, 38, lost a similar appeal at SIAC after his citizenship was revoked as "an influential member of an Albanian criminal network based in London involved in the importation of cocaine, the production of cannabis, the smuggling of people and money laundering".
He was granted a temporary residence permit in 2012 because he was married to a Latvian EU citizen.
A Home Office spokesman said: “Our highest priority is the safety and security of the UK. Removing citizenship protects us from the most dangerous people, such as terrorists, extremists and organized crime criminals. The removal of citizenship occurs only after a very careful examination of the facts and in accordance with international law. Each case is evaluated individually on its own merits and always has the right to appeal."
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