ISIL bride seeks Dutch citizenship after UK authorities say she can’t return home

19-year-old ISIL bride Shamima Begum has reveled that she is making moves to seek Dutch citizenship after she was told the British Home Office had issued an order to revoke her citizenship days after she declared her intention to return home.

According to Begum, one of the three British schoolgirls who left the UK in 2015 to live in ISIL’s so-called “caliphate”, she will explore the option of seeking Dutch citizenship.

She also described the order of the Home Office to revoke her citizenship as ‘kind of heart-breaking.

“I don’t know what to say,” Begum, who ran away when she was 15 to live under ISIL, told ITV News on Wednesday.

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“I am not that shocked but I am a bit shocked. It’s a bit upsetting and frustrating. I feel like it’s a bit unjust on me and my son”.

Reacting to the development, Begum’s lawyer, Mohammed Tasnime Akunjee, in a tweet on Tuesday said Begum’s family was “very disappointed with the Home Office’s intention to have an order made depriving his client of her citizenship”.

He said the family is “considering all legal avenues to challenge this decision”.

Sajid Javid, UK’s home secretary wrote to Begum’s family informing them that he had made an order revoking her citizenship and citing government sources, it is possible to strip the ISIL bride of her UK nationality as she was “eligible for citizenship” of another country.

However, according to reports, while Begum is believed to be of Bangladeshi heritage, she does not have the Asian country’s passport and has never visited there.

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