Derry woman takes Irish citizenship battle to the US

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A Derry woman who is challenging a court ruling, that she is a British citizen and not Irish, is taking her campaign to the United States claims this contravenes the Good Friday Agreement.

Emma DeSouza is set to travel to Washington, New York, Philadelphia and Boston next week on a 10-day trip in a bid to highlight what she describes as the British Government's failure to give domestic legal effect to the birthright provisions of the Good Friday Agreement. 

DeSouza argues that citizens in Northern Ireland should have the birthright to self-identify as Irish. 

The Derry-native won a case against the UK Home Office in 2017 with the presiding judge ruling that the "Good Friday Agreement supersedes British domestic law." The Home Office had deemed she was British when her American husband, Jake, applied for a European Economic Area residency card.