Overview of the amendments to the Kuwaiti Nationality Law Kuwait is not party to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1971 Protocol. There are no national laws or administrative procedures regulating the status of asylum seekers or refugees. All non-citizens fall under the national immigration laws (or expatriate law). As per such laws, non-nationals can secure sponsorship through family link, work, investment as a prerequisite to obtain a legal residence in Kuwait. Local integration possibilities for refugees and thousands of stateless persons through naturalisation are limited.Though the government passed a bill in 2013 permitting up to 4,000 qualifying stateless persons to be naturalised, implementation has been lagging and only 500 people have been naturalised since its adoption. Kuwait is the only country in the world that has different classes for citizens and their dependents. Some of the highlights of the Nationality Law can be found in Articles 1 to 15.(3) According to article 1 of the Law, a Kuwaiti citizen is one of the original nationals who were settled in Kuwait prior to 1920 and who maintained their normal residence there until the publication of the Law in 1959. Article 2 of the Law states that any person who is born in Kuwait or outside of it, whose father is a Kuwaiti national is also a Kuwaiti. Article 3 of the Law grants citizenship to any person who is born in the country to unknown parents by a Decree. Article 4 allows naturalisations of foreign Muslim citizens of good characters by a Decree if they resided in Kuwait for 20 years, as an Arab or from an Arab country. (3) https://www.refworld.org/legal/legislation/natlegbod/1959/en/17674 8 Kuwait: Amendments to Kuwaiti Nationality Law pose serious threats to human rights