Kuwait Citizenship Forgery: How Two Iraqi Brothers Were Registered as Kuwaiti Sons

KUWAIT CITY, May 7: A decades-old nationality file has returned to the spotlight after a fresh review by the competent authorities uncovered a striking case dating back to 1994, when a Kuwaiti citizen personally reported that two men registered in his nationality file as his sons were, in fact, his wife’s brothers.

According to informed sources, the citizen appeared before the Nationality Department at the time and admitted that the two names had been added to his file as his children, despite having no paternal relationship with him. He reportedly told officials that he wanted to correct the record and clear his name after realizing the seriousness of the matter, especially following the Iraqi invasion.

The sources said the wife was summoned during the initial investigation and admitted that the two men were her brothers from an Iraqi father. She stated that her father had asked her, after her marriage to the Kuwaiti citizen, to arrange for her two brothers to be registered under her husband’s nationality file as his sons.

Although an official report was opened in 1994, the case reportedly stopped at the stage of documentation and review, without the completion of legal procedures or the revocation of citizenship at the time, for reasons that remain unclear.

With the reopening of old nationality files and the wider review of previous reports, authorities re-examined the case. The Kuwaiti citizen who made the original confession has since died, as has his wife. The two men, who were under 18 when they were added to the file, were summoned for DNA testing.

The results, according to the sources, conclusively ruled out any biological link between the two men and the deceased Kuwaiti citizen. Their DNA was compared with that of the citizen’s five other sons, all from the same wife, confirming that the two were not his children.

Investigations revealed a highly unusual situation: the two men registered as the citizen’s sons were actually the maternal uncles of his children. Their sister, officially recorded as the citizen’s wife, had effectively appeared in official documents as their “mother,” while the Kuwaiti citizen was falsely listed as their father.

Sources added that the two brothers’ family file now includes 16 people, making the case one of the notable examples under review as authorities continue auditing old nationality records and investigating suspected cases of forgery and illegal additions.