London bombing survivor faces deportation from Britain
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A survivor of the London terror attacks whose courage was praised by Prince Charles faces deportation from Britain, the dailymail reports.
But the academic is now facing expulsion from this country – despite being born to British parents in a British colony, marrying a British woman and having two British sons.
The 70-year-old university lecturer - who is also an Australian citizen - has had his British passport confiscated and fears he will be forced to leave the country where he has lived and worked for most of his life.
Professor Tulloch was sitting opposite July 7 ringleader Mohammed Sidique Khan when the suicide bomber detonated his explosives on a Tube train.
The academic was born to a British Army officer and his wife in India and can trace his British ancestry back to the 14th century. He was raised and educated in Britain from the age of three, has held a series of posts at British universities and owns the flat where he lives in Penarth, near Cardiff.
But unknown to him, his birth in colonial India meant he was classed as a "British subject without citizenship". He was issued with a British passport and said he was never told he did not have citizenship.
After a degree at Cambridge he embarked on an academic career in Britain. He later accepted a job in Australia and was granted Australian citizenship. Professor Tulloch said his British passport stated he could take out dual nationality without putting his British nationality in jeopardy.
But when he applied to renew his British passport it was confiscated and he was told his right to live in Britain was cancelled when he was granted Australian citizenship. He was able to return to the UK under a work permit and went on to hold a professorship in communications at Brunel University and was head of the School of Journalism at Cardiff University.
But as he approached semi-retirement, he said he was told he cannot live here permanently, and can only visit as a tourist. The Home Office told him he could not apply for naturalisation as a British citizen, he said, even though his older brother has full citizenship.
Professor Tulloch said he considered their actions an insult to the years of service given by his family to Britain.
A UK Border Agency spokesman said: "It is the responsibility of an individual to check that they will not lose a previously acquired nationality or citizenship on acquiring an additional one."


















































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