In 1995, he admitted he was not the son of the file’s owner... resulting in the revocation of his Kuwaiti nationality and that of 87 of his dependents in 2026

- 1995: The Nationality Administration requested citizens to review their records to update data and renew official document prints.

- A citizen was shocked to find a person listed on his father’s file as his brother.

- The individual in question confessed and signed a statement admitting that he was registered under his alleged father despite not being his son.

- 2000: DNA samples were taken from the falsely registered individual as well as from the real brothers and sent to the UK.

- The results confirmed the validity of the real son’s claims and proved that the alleged brother was not their sibling, following tests involving all relevant parties.

- A court ruling was issued denying paternity, and the case was closed at that stage; the Nationality Administration did not submit a report on the matter to the Supreme Committee for Nationality Affairs.

- The real son faced social pressure to close the file, alongside the falsely registered individual’s admission of the forgery and his renunciation of inheritance rights.

- 2001: The falsely registered individual died while still listed on the file of a non-existent father.

- 2025: The real sons filed a new complaint with the Nationality Investigations Department, renewing their demand to deny the paternity of the person added to their father’s file.

- DNA testing was re-conducted on the deceased individual’s children, and their samples were compared with those of the alleged uncles.

- The DNA test results confirmed the findings reached by the tests conducted in 2000.

A review of an old complaint, closed nearly a quarter of a century ago, has revealed one of the forgery cases in nationality files. This came after the Nationality Investigations Department reopened the file based on official documents preserved by the Nationality Administration. DNA tests once again confirmed that a person registered on a Kuwaiti citizen’s file is neither his son nor the brother of his children. Consequently, the Supreme Committee for Nationality Affairs decided to revoke the Kuwaiti nationality of this individual and 87 others who acquired it derivatively.

In detail of the case, sources familiar with the matter told "Al-Rai" that the file’s events date back to 1995, in the post-invasion period, when the Nationality Administration asked citizens to review their records to update data and renew official document prints. During one citizen’s visit to the Nationality Administration to update his information, employees asked him why his older brother was not included in the data. He was shocked by the question and insisted that the person was never his brother.

According to the sources, the individual in question was summoned and admitted before the Litigation and Paternity Committee that he was neither their brother nor the son of their father. He signed a statement acknowledging that he was registered under his alleged father despite not being his son.

The case proceedings continued until 2000, when DNA samples were taken from the falsely registered individual as well as from the real brothers. At that time, samples were sent to the UK due to the lack of specialized laboratories in Kuwait.

Sources stated that the DNA test results received from London confirmed the real son’s claims and proved that the alleged brother was not their sibling, following tests involving all relevant parties. A court ruling was subsequently issued denying paternity.

The sources noted that the case stopped at this point, as the Nationality Administration did not submit a report on it to the Supreme Committee for Nationality Affairs. According to the complainant (the real son), he faced social pressure to close the file, coupled with the falsely registered individual’s admission of the forgery and his renunciation of inheritance rights (which obscured the matter). That individual died in 2001 while still listed on the file of a non-existent father.

In 2025, the real sons filed a new complaint with the Nationality Investigations Department, renewing their demand to deny the paternity of the person added to their father’s file.

Based on the complete documents held by the Citizenship Administration, and as a precautionary measure, the Administration decided to re-conduct a DNA fingerprinting test. Given that the individual in question had passed away, his sons were summoned and samples were taken from them, which were then compared with samples from the presumed uncles, who are the biological father’s sons. The results of the 2025 DNA fingerprinting tests confirmed the findings of the tests conducted in 2000, reaffirming that the person registered on the file as the father’s son is neither his biological child nor a sibling of the brothers registered on the same file.