Oman: Expatriates who apply for an Omani passport will have to pay a fee of a OMR600.
Interior Minister Sayyed Hamoud bin Faisal issued an executive edict setting the new regulations.
A foreign wife, widow, or divorcee of an Omani citizen will have to pay a fee of OMR300 when applying for a passport.
The new regulations will also apply to underage children who are born to native Omani women.
Under the ministerial edict, the applicants desiring to obtain passports have to prove they have been residing in Oman.
Applicants should have a clean legal record and and submit a medical certificate proving that they do not suffer from any transmissible disease.
The authorities will also levy a OMR200 on those who apply to to surrender their passports and citizenship.
Apart from the fee, foreigners applying for citizenship should fulfill a number of other criteria including attachment of 12 mandatory documents along with the application.
Foreign applicants who receive a notification on citizenship are required to report to the Ministry of Interior and finalise procedures and ensure they reside in Oman.
Underage children will automatically receive similar notifications within six months.
Applicants are also required to attend an Arabic language course and pass necessary examination in this regard.
Other documents required to be furnished along with the application as per the ministerial order include copies of the passport with a valid visa, personal identification card or similar identification, a valid residency card, a copy of the marriage certificate in case the applicant is married, as well as copies of the wife's passport and children’s passports, if any.
If the person is married to an Omani woman, he should furnish a copy of the marriage certificate, conduct certificate from Oman and another from the country of his origin and a valid medical certificate proving that he is fit and free from communicable diseases.
Also mandatory are an income certificate from the employer, a certificate from the embassy of his country proving that he is allowed to forfeit his original passport and a written declaration including the names of all his underage children and their documents.