Naturalisation and citizenship in Lebanon
What are the requirements for acquiring citizenship in Lebanon? For example, length of residence, language requirements, employment etc..
What formalities are involved in the process?
What is the policy on dual-citizenship in Lebanon? Do you have to give up your former nationality?
What are the advantages and benefits of acquiring Lebanese citizenship, in your opinion?
Thank you for sharing your experience.
Bhavna
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But Lebanon policy about the foreign labors are so unjust and a little racist, they put nations in classes for example if you want to bring someone for a housemaid position there are certain countries that they accept you can bring someone from Philippine but not from Malaysia or Thailand you cannot choose which nationality can come to work and what kind of work. another example people from India and Bangladesh can come to work only as construction workers. and the resident contract length vary from 1 to 2 year as far as i know also depending on the nationality and work.
Sorry to bring the religion topic it's a major topic to explain life in Lebanon. We also have around 18 official holidays (along with your 14 granted labor vacation days) to ensure every religion gets his holiday.
Alcastive wrote:Going back in history Lebanon's religion have 3 major religions Christians, Muslim and Druz before the population was 64% Christians and the rest 36% were Muslims (including very few Druz) now things have changed as most Christians immigrated to rest of the world, if you go to wikipedia they show that 54% are Muslims and the rest are Christians but a chocking Lebanese source shows that only 29% of Lebanese Christians are still living in the country. About political positions they are still divided 50% in the parliament Lebanon is only 10k kilometer a small country with around 4 Millions Population (not including the 2.5 Millions refugee, Palestinians about 5k and Syrian about 2 Millions registered) have 128 Parliament member. But the thing is in Lebanon as long as you are a male and even married or having a resident or own house you will never get citizenship only a yearly resident
I am aware of the history of the divides, lol. I was wondering if there was a way, with wasta, to get citizenship. Recently, there was a scandal where a lot of Iraqis and Egyptians had received Lebanese citizenship, and this was done illegally, but yet still, they were citizens, had passports, etc.
Can you confirm that a Lebanese citizen must own 51% of a company? Land can be held freehold by foreigners. Why would companies need to be owned partially by a Lebanese citizen? First time I hear this...
There is another law that i am 100% sure of, that the government prohibit companies from any kind of stock trading. but as you know paying VAT and other taxes to the government can be easily manipulated and with a smart IT Audit you can declare fake low profit to the government so you end up making most of your income. Even some companies like the one i used to work before they had yearly income more than 500k so what they did is they split the companies which was owned by 2 brothers in the same building (3 floors) so they declare their profit below 500k on each company the reason behind this (also as i heard from my supervisor and not 100% sure) is that they pay low taxes doing this.
Anyway i think if a major foreign company want to open busines in Lebanon as a branch it doesn't need a partnership. this could apply to individuals or average companies that doesn't have other branches. but if you read in that website the laws are posted there.
Yes you can have both citizenships
But the rquirments are not easy聽 聽if you merry a Lebanese (only paperwork)聽 you have gone more than half the way
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