Restoration of citizenship in Arab nationality legislation

Abstract

Abstract: The idea of ​​restitution is based on important motives required by logic and imposed by justice. If changing nationality is based on abandoning the principle of permanent loyalty or the final abandonment of the former national by this state, then restitution, in its premises, may serve as a remedy for the harshness of the deprivation procedure in some cases, and as a correction of some political deprivation decisions, and the exaggeration of its texts and justifications.

In all cases, its results achieve reconciliation between the individual and the state, through restoring his national reputation by reintegrating him into the national community. Nationality is a legal system established by the state to define the people through it, and it also benefits the individual’s affiliation to it, as nationality is a characteristic attached to the individual, and it has a political, legal and spiritual nature that connects the individual to the state

It is a psychological and spiritual belonging to a specific social unit, and at the same time, it signifies belonging. Therefore, nationality has importance on the international and domestic levels, in terms of defining the status of citizens and foreigners, whether in terms of the rights and obligations that citizens enjoy over foreigners, or the role it grants to its individuals in terms of eligibility, marriage, inheritance, and wills.

From an individual perspective, it enables them to enjoy rights and obligations at the international and domestic levels. From a state perspective, nationality is an important criterion for distributing individuals across its territory and distinguishing citizens from foreigners. Restitution, in its ultimate purpose, facilitates and resolves many of the problems that a person may encounter.

If he is denied the right to regain his nationality, such as if the person does not adapt to the group to which he belongs by acquiring the nationality of this group, opening the door to the national helps to preserve the entity of the state in containing and preserving its nationals, and the person regains his nationality as it was before the loss, whether original or acquired.

Today, whoever enjoys the nationality of the state is known as a national, and whoever does not enjoy the nationality of the state is known as a foreigner, and whoever enjoys full political rights in addition to civil rights among the nationals is known as (citizen), and whoever enjoys civil rights but does not enjoy full political rights among the nationals is known as (subject).