KUWAIT: A grievances committee set up by the government to look into petitions on revocation, withdrawal and loss of Kuwaiti citizenship announced Thursday the launch of an online appeals process for individuals affected by decrees or decisions related to the revocation, withdrawal or loss of Kuwaiti citizenship — including those whose citizenship certificates have been withdrawn.
Head of the grievances committee Ali Al-Dhubaibi said appeals will be accepted in two phases. The first phase, starting Sunday, May 4, 2025, covers cases published in the official gazette Kuwait Al-Youm between February 20, 2024 and April 30, 2025. Affected individuals will have 60 days from May 4 to submit their appeal via the committee’s official link: www.cmgs.gov.kw. The second phase will cover any future decrees or decisions issued after April 30, 2025, with a 60-day appeal period beginning from the date of publication in Kuwait Al-Youm.
Al-Dhubaibi stressed that appeals must be submitted exclusively through the committee’s electronic portal during official working days, Sunday to Thursday, between 8:00 am and 2:00 pm. He urged applicants to fill in the required information through the designated link and clarified that appeals submitted outside the specified method will not be considered. For inquiries, the committee has provided two WhatsApp contact numbers: 50333555 and 51111888.
The Cabinet had issued resolution no. 207/2 for 2025 on March 11 forming the grievances committee. The committee is tasked with receiving, reviewing and evaluating appeals related to citizenship revocation, and issuing recommendations and proposals in line with existing laws, regulations and decisions.
Also on Thursday, the supreme commission for nationality said it has decided to revoke the Kuwaiti citizenship of 434 people for various reasons. This raises the number of Kuwaitis who were stripped of their citizenship during the past year to well over 35,000 people, about 29,000 of them foreign women who became Kuwaitis after getting married to Kuwaiti husbands.
The interior ministry said in a statement that five Kuwaitis had their citizenship revoked for holding the nationality of a third country, which is prohibited under Kuwait’s nationality law. It said 275 others had their citizenship revoked by the commission for having obtained it through false information, documents and forgery.
The commission also revoked the citizenship of 154 Kuwaitis, who or their fathers, had been naturalized for doing great services to the country or had been in the country before 1965 due to “the state’s supreme interests”. The commission’s decisions become effective only after they are ratified by the Cabinet.
