Parliament ratifies amended Yemeni citizenship law

SANA'A, March, 31 (Saba)- The parliament ratified in it session held
on Tuesday item No. (3) of the law No. (6) issued in 1990 over
Yemeni citizenship.

The amended law stipulates that any person born to a father or
mother any of them carries the Yemeni citizenship has the right to
hold the citizenship. Any person born in Yemen to a mother carries
this citizenship and to unknown father has this right also.

According to the law, any person born in Yemen to a woman carries
the citizenship and his relation to his father has not proved, has
the right to hold the citizenship. Any one born in Yemen to unknown
parents is considered Yemeni and has the right to acquire the
citizenship.

The law gives the right to any emigrant holds the Yemeni
citizenship upon his departure and still maintains the citizenship
to gain the citizenship if he required this even he has a
citizenship from the country he was living in.

Any one has the citizenship via his mother and reaches the maturity
age is given the right to choose wither to maintain the Yemeni
citizenship or to join his father's one.

The parliament's session, headed by Speaker Yahya Arra'i ratified
this law project on the bases of the Constitutional and Law
Committee's report. Concerned government officials attended the
session.