Shamima Begum could use her newborn baby to get back into the UK after Home Secretary Sajid Javid stripped her of her British citizenship as today she decried the decision as 'unjust and unfair on me and my son'.
The remorseless 19-year-old is in a Syrian refugee camp with her son Jerah - apparently named after a 7th century Islamic warlord - but Mr Javid has moved to stop her returning to London after she fled to join ISIS when she was 15.
Asif Salam, a London lawyer who runs the Salam Immigration firm, said today: 'Because of the child, the mother could by default get back her nationality or get a limited leave to remain - to be able to live with her child in the UK'.
Today boxing hero Amir Khan weighed in on the debate and blasted Begum saying: 'You left to support terrorism, now live with it. [The] UK isn't your home, stop giving us all a bad name please'. The Home Office believes that because Begum's mother was born in Bangladesh her daughter is entitled to dual citizenship meaning she would not be left stateless, which is illegal under international law.
But Begum's family says she does not have a Bangladeshi passport and has never been there, making Mr Javid's decision illegal, they claim.
The news was broken to the teenager today, who insisted: 'It's unjust on me and my son. It's a bit upsetting and frustrating. It's kind of heartbreaking to read'.
But she admitted that if Britain won't have her Holland might because she is married to Dutch jihadi Yago Riedijk and said: 'Maybe I can ask for citizenship in Holland. If he gets sent back to prison in Holland I can just wait for him while he is in prison'.
Shamima Begum (right) has named her son Jerah (left being held by a friend), in what historians say is homage to an Islamic warlord, and could use him to get back into Britain She added: 'My family made it sound like it would be a lot easier for me to come back to the UK when I was speaking to them in Baghouz. It's kind of hard to swallow' Begum's baby son Jerah is entitled to British citizenship - but could try to argue he is Dutch because of the nationality of its jihadi father Yago Riedijk.
He said: 'This is even more complicated. The baby is entitled to British nationality. The baby is probably entitled to Bangladesh nationality and the baby's father is Dutch.
'Dutch law is a little different. If the father, who is apparently still alive, says the baby is his then the baby can also receive Dutch nationality. So that means that the Home Secretary could exclude the baby from Britai because the baby would not be stateless'. Before today's decision, the Home Secretary had already hinted that he would block Begum from returning to the UK.
Earlier this week Mr Javid told MPs that no British troops would be used to rescue any Britons who travelled to Syria to support terrorism.
He said more than 900 people went to Syria or Iraq, adding: 'Whatever role they took in the so-called caliphate, they all supported a terrorist organisation and in doing so they have shown they hate our country and the values we stand for.'
He went on: 'Now this so-called caliphate is crumbling, some of them want to return and I have been very clear where I can and where any threat remains I will not hesitate to prevent this.
'The powers available to me include banning non-British people from this country and stripping dangerous dual nationals of their British citizenship.'
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