Nationality – mine, yours, his
the provisions of citizenship are regulated by law no. 15 of 1959. in this law, we find three important articles regarding who is eligible for kuwaiti nationality:
article 1: original kuwaiti nationals are those persons who had settled in kuwait prior to 1920 and who maintained their normal residence there until the date of the publication of this law. ancestral residence shall be deemed complementary to the period of residence of descendants.
thus, who came to kuwait before or after 1920, the year of the famous jahra war in kuwaiti history and then returned to his country of origin, and did not reside in kuwait permanently and continuously, he is not considered one of the original kuwaitis.
this article of the law is transitional and applies only to a certain category and was supposed to stop working after the completion of the identification of the original kuwaitis compared to others. the original is considered a kuwaiti by force of law, which means that the certificate of citizenship he holds reveals a realistic situation and not a donor.
article 7 of the citizenship law stipulates that kuwaiti citizenship shall be granted by a decision of the competent authority to those who it considers being entitled to it as a result of his great service to the country.
the second article of the law has been disabled, which concerns the granting of citizenship on the basis of blood relationship, under which a person is considered a kuwaiti national if he is the son of a kuwaiti father, regardless of whether the father is naturalized.
from all this, we see that the kuwaiti nationality law is distinctive and excellent, but its application has been marred by many irregularities.
the naturalization section of the origins did not close with the completion of the committees to determine who deserves the original citizenship or naturalization or who does not deserve it.
it also granted citizenship to those who did not relinquish their original nationality. it was also granted to those who have not been proved to provide many great services to kuwait and other blatant abuses committed by many, and there is no room to go into it.
the occasion of this article is because of what we have seen from the disclosures of the kuwaiti nationalities made by the media, the latest of which is a businessman who has made a lot of noise about his real estate – the first news published by the media shows he acquired the nationality according to article vii, and a second report says he acquired it according to article i, that is, he is the original kuwaiti. this is indeed puzzling.
how can a naturalized citizen become ‘original’ in a few years, and the door for granting citizenship by the establishment was closed almost sixty years ago?
all personal photographs on the nationality cards of the original kuwaitis show pictures of those who had reached the age of eighteen, except for those who got a copy of the nationality certificate in case of ‘loss’.
but the photos that we see on the nationality cards of those who claim to be ‘original’ or article 1, are often recent photos or to persons who are relatively older.
we hope that some party, official or otherwise, will explain what is happening in the national identity, and this manipulation and the transition from the case of ‘non-kuwaiti’ to ‘naturalized’ and then to ‘original’, all in a few years, and perhaps with little money.
