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Kuwaiti MPs want nationality law amended
Kuwait Times – 08 January, 2006
In the first, they propose that children born to a
Kuwaiti woman and her foreign husband are entitled to Kuwaiti citizenship when
they become adults provided they maintain legal residence in the country and
forfeit their original nationality.
They said that this applies only if the husband is
originally Muslim and Arab or a bedoon, a stateless Arab. The same applies to
children whom their foreign fathers have divorced their Kuwaiti mothers or have
died.
Such children have to be treated as Kuwaitis until they become adults,
the amendment proposes.
In the second amendment, the MPs proposed that foreign
husbands of Kuwaiti women have the right to claim Kuwaiti citizenship after five
years of marriage. Their minor children also have the same right.
The interior minister has the right to exempt them from
any or all the conditions, including the five-year period. The bill stipulates
that people who obtain the Kuwaiti citizenship under the amendments must drop
their other nationality within three months or will automatically lose their
Kuwaiti citizenship.
Under Kuwaiti nationality law, foreign husbands of
Kuwaiti women and their children don’t have the right to apply for Kuwaiti
citizenship.
On the contrary, foreign wives of Kuwaiti men have the
right to obtain the Kuwaiti citizenship after five years of marriage, provided
they have children.
Islamist lawmakers who have strongly opposed women’s
political rights have vowed to submit a number of bills to help Kuwaiti women
get their social rights.
In another development, Islamist MP Jassem Al-Kundari
said yesterday that he will soon submit to Speaker Jassem Al-Khorafi a
disclosure of his wealth, like Islamist MPs Nasser Al-Sane and Mohammad
Al-Busairi who made the disclosure last Monday.
Kundari hoped that a draft law stipulating to make the
disclosure of wealth compulsory for senior government officials and MPs, will be
passed during January 23 session when corruption will be debated.
MPs in
favour of the bill insist that the law will greatly reduce corruption and graft
that have been on the rise in the
country.
Kuwait Times – 08 January, 2006
Five Islamist lawmakers yesterday submitted a draft law
calling to amend the nationality law of 1959 to grant foreign husbands of
Kuwaiti women and their children Kuwaiti citizenship. The five MPs, Awwad
Al-Enezi, Khaled Al-Adwah, Abdullah Okash, Hussein Al-Mutairi and Mukhled
Al-Azemi, called in the bill for the addition of two provisions to Kuwaiti
nationality law.
calling to amend the nationality law of 1959 to grant foreign husbands of
Kuwaiti women and their children Kuwaiti citizenship. The five MPs, Awwad
Al-Enezi, Khaled Al-Adwah, Abdullah Okash, Hussein Al-Mutairi and Mukhled
Al-Azemi, called in the bill for the addition of two provisions to Kuwaiti
nationality law.
In the first, they propose that children born to a
Kuwaiti woman and her foreign husband are entitled to Kuwaiti citizenship when
they become adults provided they maintain legal residence in the country and
forfeit their original nationality.
They said that this applies only if the husband is
originally Muslim and Arab or a bedoon, a stateless Arab. The same applies to
children whom their foreign fathers have divorced their Kuwaiti mothers or have
died.
Such children have to be treated as Kuwaitis until they become adults,
the amendment proposes.
In the second amendment, the MPs proposed that foreign
husbands of Kuwaiti women have the right to claim Kuwaiti citizenship after five
years of marriage. Their minor children also have the same right.
The interior minister has the right to exempt them from
any or all the conditions, including the five-year period. The bill stipulates
that people who obtain the Kuwaiti citizenship under the amendments must drop
their other nationality within three months or will automatically lose their
Kuwaiti citizenship.
Under Kuwaiti nationality law, foreign husbands of
Kuwaiti women and their children don’t have the right to apply for Kuwaiti
citizenship.
On the contrary, foreign wives of Kuwaiti men have the
right to obtain the Kuwaiti citizenship after five years of marriage, provided
they have children.
Islamist lawmakers who have strongly opposed women’s
political rights have vowed to submit a number of bills to help Kuwaiti women
get their social rights.
In another development, Islamist MP Jassem Al-Kundari
said yesterday that he will soon submit to Speaker Jassem Al-Khorafi a
disclosure of his wealth, like Islamist MPs Nasser Al-Sane and Mohammad
Al-Busairi who made the disclosure last Monday.
Kundari hoped that a draft law stipulating to make the
disclosure of wealth compulsory for senior government officials and MPs, will be
passed during January 23 session when corruption will be debated.
MPs in
favour of the bill insist that the law will greatly reduce corruption and graft
that have been on the rise in the
country.
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