According to the KUNA news agency, between 2011 and last month, Kuwait’s Central Agency for Remedying Illegal Residents’ Status (CARIRS) withdrew the citizenship of almost 10,000 individuals who held dual nationality.
The action, which the agency claims is the outcome of ten years of Kuwaiti attempts to resolve the dual nationality matter, is the pinnacle of a campaign that started last year to confront individuals who acquire Kuwaiti citizenship illegally. So far about a thousand of these individuals have been found. Kuwait does not recognize dual nationality and once a child reaches the age of 18 they have two years to choose between keeping their other nationality or their Kuwaiti nationality.
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Chief of CARIRS’s Situation Amendment Department, General Muhammad Al-Wahib, told KUNA that 6,054 residents had their status changed to Saudi, 1,188 to Iraqi, 868 to Syrian, 131 to Iranian, 53 to Jordanian, and 1,962 to other nationalities.
Al-Wahib drew attention to the fact that while some people have parents or other relatives who possess documentation from foreign countries, others do not have relatives who can provide proof of their nationality.
The speaker encouraged anyone who desired to change their status to come to CARIRS in the Eastern Region, where they could settle their residency and regularise their status in compliance with Kuwaiti residency legislation.
The Gulf state has increased its efforts in the last few years to change the status of people who are living there illegally.
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