The Supreme Committee for the Investigation of Kuwaiti Nationality decided to strip citizenship from the man born in 1958 and all 105 individuals registered as his dependents after investigators matched his true Gulf identity through DNA samples and cross-checked Gulf passports along with entry and exit records. Security sources said the probe began with an earlier forgery case involving the same family file and expanded when discrepancies appeared in the original naturalization documents submitted decades earlier. The committee chaired by First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Fahd Al-Yousef has pursued similar cases under a policy of continuous review that treats no file as permanently closed.
Investigators determined the man had been registered under a fabricated identity when he obtained Kuwaiti citizenship while his actual origins traced to another Gulf state where his sister continues to reside under her genuine name. The file listed 32 sons and daughters from five wives yet DNA comparisons with verified relatives confirmed none of the claimed lineage held up under scrutiny. A second son from the file remains under active investigation while one alleged son has already had his citizenship and affiliation revoked in a linked proceeding.
This case forms part of a wider effort by the Nationality Investigation Department that has uncovered systematic manipulation spanning multiple decades according to informed sources familiar with the committee’s work. Similar reviews have identified fictitious siblings false paternity claims and altered birth dates intended to conceal foreign origins and expand dependent registrations. The Supreme Committee has referred hundreds of such files to the Council of Ministers for revocation decisions since the campaign intensified in 2024 with DNA testing now a standard verification tool.
Kuwait’s civil registration system requires continuous validation of naturalization records to maintain the integrity of nationality grants a process that has led to the withdrawal of citizenship in cases where false statements were proven through official Gulf documentation. The man fled Kuwait in 2024 shortly before authorities deepened their examination of the file which originated from naturalization procedures conducted 58 years earlier. His absence has not halted the investigation as the committee applies the principle that flight does not exempt individuals from accountability under nationality law.
A decree-law issued in August 2026 amended the Kuwaiti Nationality Law to explicitly permit withdrawal when deliberate false entries are added to any file whether the original applicant’s or that of another person as confirmed by the Supreme Committee or final judicial ruling. The changes also introduced electronic nationality certificates with equivalent legal status to paper documents while barring naturalized citizens from parliamentary participation. These updates align with the state’s broader digital transformation of citizenship records and ongoing correction of historical files.
The total dependents affected in this single file reached 105 including children and further descendants whose registrations stemmed from the initial fraudulent claims. Security sources noted that the committee merges related cases to ensure comprehensive revocation preventing any residual benefits from the falsified lineage. Similar large-scale probes have previously identified files with more than 1 200 registered dependents of which nearly 1 000 were later deemed fraudulent through comparable methods of biometric and archival verification.
