Khaberni - In one of the most serious cases of tampering with the national identity in Kuwait, official investigations revealed forgery networks that stretched over decades, including the registration of Gulf nationals’ children as Kuwaiti citizens, and the expansion of fake nationality files that included hundreds of dependencies, before the Higher Nationality Committee concluded these cases with decisive decisions.
The case that triggered the initial leads began with information received by the First Deputy Prime Minister and Kuwaiti Minister of Interior, Fahad Al-Yousef, who immediately issued a directive to refer it to the Nationality Investigation Department. With further scrutiny of the records, an organized forgery operation was uncovered, in which a Kuwaiti woman impersonated her brother’s wife to register 4 children from her Gulf husband under her brother's Kuwaiti nationality file during the years spanning from 2003 to 2011.
The investigations did not stop at the documents but extended to reality, where reviewing addresses and travel movement revealed that the children registered as Kuwaitis were actually living with their Gulf father and traveled with him regularly. Kuwait International Airport cameras revealed that adjacent seats in flights were occupied together by the children and the Gulf man, a scene that dismantled the official narrative recorded in the files.
In light of the photographic evidence and extended investigations, the Gulf man admitted that he was the real father of the children, unveiling an even bigger surprise. Those registered as «Kuwaiti siblings» were, in fact, his biological siblings, but had been registered as Kuwaiti nationals through complicated forgery paths. Genetic fingerprinting tests conclusively confirmed these details, supported by official Gulf documents.
This case was only part of a broader picture, as the Higher Committee for Nationality in its last meeting announced the examination of about 450 names, among forgers, dual citizens, and their dependents, within files that extended for more than 50 years. The investigations indicated that some networks successfully registered 264 individuals on forged files, while dependencies of others reached dozens of names on a single file.
The issued decisions included withdrawal and loss of citizenship in cases of duplicity, fraud, and false statements, a step that reflected a firm approach to correct the records, close files that had been open for decades, and affirm that protecting the national identity is not just an administrative option, but a sovereign issue related to the present and the future.
