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UAE grants citizenship and passport to investors, professionals, special talents
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What the document holds
WAM, 30 Jan 2021: amendments to the nationality executive regulation allowing investors, doctors, specialists, scientists, inventors, talents, intellectuals, artists and families to be nominated for citizenship while keeping their nationality; investors must own property in the UAE (no amount); other categories need 10 years of experience, patents or awards; oath of allegiance; citizenship revocable. Event already recorded; investor property condition added as a rule. No numbers of grants.
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What it covers Cabinet amendments to the Executive Regulation of the Federal Law on Nationality and Passports: citizenship by nomination for investors, doctors, scientists, inventors, artists; investors must own property in the UAE; dual nationality allowed; revocable.
Notes Emirates News Agency (WAM) is the UAE state news agency; its articles carry official announcements. Saved as the JSON returned by WAM's own article API (the web page is a JavaScript app with no text in its HTML). The amended executive regulation itself was not found on the legislation platform.
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