The Ministry of Interior announced that “in the context of implementing the law, protecting the Kuwaiti identity and interacting with humanitarian cases, there are joint committees from the General Administration of Nationality and Travel Documents and the General Department of Criminal Evidence to examine some cases of births outside the State of Kuwait often as a result of Kuwaitis getting married outside the country.”
In a statement, the Public Relations and Security Media Department of the Ministry of Interior pointed out that “these committee members go periodically to some countries from where their births are reported to take a sample of the genetic fingerprint, and then the General Department of Nationality and Travel Documents, after returning to Kuwait, checks to verify the conformity of the samples with the Kuwaiti father or his relatives,” and explained, “in the event the sample matches, the visa will be granted to enter the country as a Kuwaiti citizen.”
The administration indicated that “there are some risks involved in embassies granting an entry document to every child born outside the country and whose parents claim that he was born to a Kuwaiti father, as in the event that he is granted a document and an entry visa to the country, and the result of the fingerprint then turns negative.
“Once the child is given the entry it becomes difficult to deport the child from the country because the child possesses official documents or a passport,” noting that some ‘fraudsters’ will take advantage of this procedure and the situation so taking the DNA sample and matching it with the Kuwaiti father will prevent manipulation or exploitation or prevent the concerned person from resorting to the embassy to request a document or entry visa except in the right and proper cases.”