S TAT E L E S S B Y D E C R E E Te x t b o x 5 - E x a m p l e s o f t y p e s o f p o p u l a t i o n s t a r g e t e d f o r c i t i z e n s h i p revocation and sample impacts I M P ACT ED G RO UP / LE GAL BAS I S CO RE I M P ACT (S ) CO RO LLARY I M P ACT (S ) Women married to a man who is a naturalised Actual or risk of statelessness of women or Loss of benefits, social and financial precarity; possible social Kuwaiti / Article 7 children; forces other governments to abuse, possible impact on children and access to specific education or healthcare accommodate for Kuwaitʼs changes. Women naturalised via marriage to a Kuwaiti / Actual or risk of statelessness of woman or Article 8 children; forces other governments to Loss of benefits, social and financial precarity, possible social abuse, possible impact aon children and access to specific education or healthcare accommodate for Kuwaitʼs changes Originally non-Kuwaiti woman, divorced or Actual or risk of statelessness of woman or widowed under Articles 7 or 8, according to children; forces other governments to December 2024 repeal of Article 9 accommodate for Kuwaitʼs changes Those deemed to have obtained citizenship by Those deemed to have performed a ʻvaluable actʼ or Stripping of nationality from dependents who may have no real or effective connection to any other state; the socio-financial impact fraud, forgery (13.1); convicted of moral ʻserviceʼ to Kuwait in the past, but retrospectively of stripping, including access to healthcare, bank account, property ownership; including retroactive application of benefits. turpitude or national security crime (13.2); stripped of citizenship, along with dependents; who risk or Where the authorities have not stated a clear basis for dismissed from government position due face statelessness revocation, the ill-defined catch-all of ‘state interest’ appears applicable. Those in receipt of benefits from the granting of In theory, the requirement to return monies to the state, In theory, bankruptcy, including possibly intergenerationally. citizenship up to the time of the revocation of including any disbursed to dependents to disciplinary process (13.3); those whom authorities deem in the interest of the state to lose citizenship (13.4); those deemed to be promoting principles counter to social order (13.5) and their dependents nationality / amended Article 16 47