Suzan El Tahhan Bidoons: A Statelessness Plight in Kuwait ‫مجلة الدراسات القانونية واالقتصادية‬ determination procedures to obtain status as stateless persons are not appropriate because of their long-established ties to these countries. 69 Based on existing international standards and State practices in reducing statelessness, States might be advised to take nationality verification efforts rather than statelessness determination procedures.70 On that account, I would like to reassure you that naturalization is the only fundamental solution to the Bidoons dilemma. Bidoons should be granted the Kuwaiti nationality and integrate within the society they de facto belong as equal citizens enjoying the same set of rights. Accordingly, if the Kuwaiti government started naturalizing Bidoons in Kuwait and ended the widespread discriminatory legacy; two of the three durable solutions would be available for Bedoon to end their misery: "Local integration" for Bidoons who are still in Kuwait in addition to "voluntary repatriation" for those who have fled Kuwait before. Though resettlement is one of the durable solutions, it doesn't present the bestcase scenario for Bidoons who have the right to be naturalized Kuwaitis rather than any other permanent residency or citizenship elsewhere. I believe a Bidoons who has been determined as a refugee or stateless person and could resettle elsewhere would still be hoping to return to his/her motherland and be an equal citizen in Kuwait. In Kuwait, it is said that some Bidoons have been able to resolve their situation through naturalization. Indeed, there are reports that over 10,000 Bidoons have naturalized over the past decade. However, others suggest that this figure relates to 69 UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Guidelines on Statelessness No. 2: Procedures for Determining whether an Individual is a Stateless Person, 5 April 2012, HCR/GS/12/02, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4f7dafb52.html [accessed 20 December 2015] 70 Ibid. 29