The Kuwaiti nationality law restricts expats from easily becoming citizens of the State of Kuwait. The Kuwaiti nationality law is very old and a decree was first passed in 1920, then in 1959. An emir's decree was passed later in 1960 and from the 1970s the nationality law became restrictive. A number of amendments were made in 1980, 1982, 1994,1998, 2000. Amendments were made in 1987 but were rejected by the assembly. There were also proposals in 2006 but the parliament which proposed it dissolved. Kuwait plans to change their nationality law to allow non muslims to become citizens.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] The most recent proposal to allow non-muslim to become Kuwaiti was made by MP Ashour who suggested to cancell item 5 of article 4.[9]