www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-57738240
The Home Office strikes again.
This time the problem is a complete disregard on the part of the Home Office of the long history of Irish migration to Britain, the GFA, and other international agreements on movement of people between Ireland and the UK.
You know it's bad when even a grandee of the DUP is pissed off:
Earlier in the year, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) peer Lord Hay told the committee he had been discriminated against in his attempts to get a British passport.
The former Stormont speaker was born in County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland but is a long-term Northern Ireland resident.
He said that latest census figures show that there were 40,000 people living in Northern Ireland who were born in the Republic.
"I welcome the recommendations of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee where they are clearly saying that the fee has got to be dealt with," Lord Hay told BBC Radio Foyle on Wednesday.
He said the committee had "clearly said to the Home Office the fee must be dealt with" and described the naturalisation process as having been "fraught with insensitivity".
"The key issue is that £1,300 puts a lot of people off in applying for British citizenship and the Home Office have had this issue for some time," he added.
"It's a real barrier to people who simply want to register as a British citizen."
Mr Hoare said the fee was "absurd and unfair", adding: "The policy is out of step with what the public needs, and with life on the island of Ireland today."
In its evidence to the committee, the Home Office had argued the process was fair, as it was the same for people born in any other third country. 
However the committee found such an explanation "is to fundamentally miss the historical nuance of the issue".