asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether people living on or born on Ascension Island are entitled to British citizenship. [HL4409]

People working and living on Ascension Island are doing so because they are contracted to work for one of the employing organisations based on the island and they are entitled to remain there only while in that employment. This affects their ability to meet the requirements for naturalisation as a British overseas territories citizen (and thereafter become a British citizen) as the conditions applying to their stay mean that they are not regarded as “settled” for the purpose of naturalisation. For the same reason, a child born on Ascension Island could acquire British citizenship by birth only if one of its parents was a British citizen at the time of the child’s birth.