S TAT E L E S S B Y D E C R E E On 12 July 2025, the Ministry of Interior appeared to extend its grace period by providing for one year, from 20 July 2025, “a structured framework of rights, responsibilities, and limitations for those affected, allowing them to retain select benefits while mandating compliance with administrative procedures”.136 Scale of Revocations: general timeline and key moments On 4 March 2024, the GoK announced the first wave of citizenship revocations; on 16 March 2024 theMinistry of Interior established a hotline for reporting “crimes related to Kuwaiti citizenship and passports”. Callers created over 5,000 reports on its first day. Some of the first revocations, in March and April 2024, were individuals seen as opposed to the government, including Hakim al-Mutairi, the Secretary-General of the Umma Conference, and the leader of the National Ummah Party, as well as Sarah al-Ajmi, Abdulrahman al-Essa, Zafer alAjmi, and Jameela al-Otaibi.137 At the end of May 2024, the GoK created the Supreme Committee for the Investigation of Kuwaiti Citizenship.138 On 10 May 2024, the Amir dissolved the elected National Assembly for up to four years. He also suspended key elements of the Kuwaiti Constitution which provided an enduring basis to implement policies that avoided scrutiny by elected representatives and which would have likely been illegal or subject to court challenge under normal circumstances. On 27 May 2024, the Amir, Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, issued a decree to form the Supreme Committee for the Investigation of Kuwaiti Nationality, which perpetuated the practice of arbitrarily revoking the nationality of many citizens; early March 2024, the Kuwaiti authorities had begun a campaign to revoke the nationalities of citizens for various reasons, including forgery. 49