Table 1 lists the main amendments of the Kuwaiti Nationality Law, in terms of who can acquire the nationality and who cannot, even retrospectively or after legally acquiring the nationality. In practice, thousands of naturalised foreign wives of Kuwaiti husbands, who acquired Kuwaiti citizenship through lawful means in the past, are being stripped of their Kuwaiti nationality without the ability to reacquire their original nationalities because they voluntarily abandoned them when they were naturalised. These women represent the largest number of affected citizens, reaching 30,000 persons in total over the last five months of 2024.(7) The number is increasing as more revocations of nationality are taking place every week. The Kuwaiti authorities responded to complaints from the public about stripping legally obtained nationality from Kuwaiti wives, saying it was due to errors in the past of the legal mechanism of approving naturalisation. This adds up to tens of thousands of existing stateless people in Kuwait. Stateless persons (Bedoon) in Kuwait were already a major problem and grew in number to over 92,000 people. (8) According to the United Nations, this number is one of the largest in the world, considering the population size of Kuwait. Movements by civil society and HRDs in Kuwait were ongoing for decades to address this problem to no avail. This is in addition to the classes of citizenship, with restrictions on citizenship rights and privileges, which were created by the restrictive Nationality Law and its amendments. (7) https://www.gsn-online.com/news-centre/article/kuwaiti-repression-gathers-pace-thousandsmore-stripped (8) https://www.refworld.org/policy/upr/unhcr/2015/en/104811 12 Kuwait: Amendments to Kuwaiti Nationality Law pose serious threats to human rights