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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Lisa O’Carroll

UK woman fears being stranded in Spain over new Home Office border rules

Natasha and Nick smile for the camera
Natasha Cochrane de la Rosa and her father, Nick, in London. Photograph: Nick Cochrane

A British woman has told how she fears being stranded in Spain for months after being refused boarding a on flight back home to London because she was not aware of new Home Office border rules.

Natasha Cochrane de la Rosa, 26, was born in the UK to a British father and a Spanish mother, but because of archaic laws she was not entitled automatically to British citizenship because her parents were not married. Other women born to unmarried parents have called the rules an “illegitimacy tax”.

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