Editing Turks and Caicos Islands (section)

===Citizenship===
{{See also|British Overseas Territories citizen#Access to British citizenship}}
Because the Turks and Caicos is a [[British Overseas Territories|British Overseas Territory]] and not an independent country, its nationality laws are partly determined by [[British nationality law]] and [[History of British nationality law|its history]]. People with close ties to Britain's Overseas Territories all hold the same nationality: [[British Overseas Territories citizen]]ship (BOTC), originally defined by the [[British Nationality Act 1981]] as British Dependent Territories citizenship.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hansen |first=Randall |author-link=Randall Hansen |year=2000 |title=Citizenship and Immigration in Post-war Britain: The Institutional Origins of a Multicultural Nation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qj8GEjW91oEC&pg=PA213 |location=Oxford & New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780191583018 |access-date=2022-03-05 |archive-date=6 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220306041027/https://books.google.com/books?id=qj8GEjW91oEC&pg=PA213 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{rp|pp=213–214}} BOTC, however, does not confer any right to live in any British Overseas Territory, including the territory from which it is derived. Instead, the rights normally associated with citizenship derive from what is called [[Belonger status]] and island natives or those descended from natives are said to be [[Belonger status#Belonger status in Turks and Caicos|Belongers]]. The Turks and Caicos government amended its immigration law in 2021 in that regard, making the granting of Belonger Status exclusive to "being married for ten years to a Belonger (other than a Belonger by marriage), or by being the dependent child of someone who becomes a Belonger by marriage."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=New Immigration law changes criteria to become a TCI Belonger |url=https://suntci.com/new-immigration-law-changes-criteria-to-become-a-tci-belonger-p99-106.htm |access-date=2022-08-10 |website=suntci.com |archive-date=10 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220810090143/https://suntci.com/new-immigration-law-changes-criteria-to-become-a-tci-belonger-p99-106.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> It was also made possible "for someone who has invested $500,000 or more in Providenciales or West Caicos, or $250,000 or more in Grand Turk or the family Islands, to obtain a residence permit for up to ten years."<ref name=":0" />

In 2002, the [[British Overseas Territories Act]] restored full British citizenship status to all citizens of British Overseas Territories, including the Turks and Caicos.