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              This is an appeal by the Secretary of State. However, for convenience we will refer to the parties as they were designated in the First-tier Tribunal.
              The appellant entered the UK in September 1999 (aged 16) claiming to be a Kosovan born in September 1983. His asylum application was refused but he was granted exceptional leave until March 2004. In 2000 he applied for a travel document. In 2004 he applied for ILR. In 2005 he applied for citizenship. All of these applications were successful. When the appellant applied for ILR and citizenship he was an adult.
              It subsequently came to light that the appellant lied in the aforementioned applications about his identity and age. The appellant is, in fact, as he now accepts, an Albanian citizen born in October 1982.
              In the light of the appellant's use of a false identity the respondent made a decision ("the SSHD decision") to deprive the appellant of his citizenship. The appellant appealed to the First-tier Tribunal against the SSHD decision, where his appeal came before Judge of the First-tier Tribunal Burnett ("the judge"). In a decision dated 28 September 2023 ("the FTT decision") the judge allowed the appeal. The respondent is now appealing against the FTT decision.
              Section 40(3) of the British Nationality Act 1981 provides:
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