Home Office faces high court challenge over 'profiteering' fees

Group gets permission to apply for judicial review of £1,012 fee to register child as UK citizenThe Home Office is facing a high court challenge over the £1,012 fee it charges to register a child as a British citizen, after a judge granted campaigners permission to apply for a judicial review.The case is to contest the legality of the amount of the fee – not the charging of it – when the administrative cost of processing a registration is £372, campaigners said. Con