התאזרחות נלווית (בן/בת זוג + ילדים קטינים)

AE-NAT-03 is the DERIVATIVE naturalization route under Federal Law No. 17 of 1972 concerning Nationality and Passports: the mechanism by which the wife and minor children of a person who is himself a national BY NATURALIZATION acquire UAE nationality on a derivative (attaching) basis rather than on their own independent footing. Its keystone is Article 10, which provides that 'The wife of a national by naturalization shall be considered as national by naturalization if she renounces her nationality of origin' and that 'Minor children of a national by naturalization shall also be considered nationals by naturalization', with those children given a right 'to choose their nationality of origin during the year following the date of which they reach the age of majority' (Art 10). The route is therefore SECONDARY to a principal naturalization grant: there is no AE-NAT-03 claimant in the abstract — every derivative beneficiary attaches to a principal who naturalized via the legacy residence tiers (Art 5-8; AE-NAT-01) or, post-2021, via nomination (Art 9 + Art 12 Bis + the 30 Jan 2021 Executive-Regulation categories; AE-NAT-02). Two distinct sub-populations sit inside this route: (1) the Art 10 statutory derivative family of a naturalized husband/father; and (2) the spouses and children of nomination naturalizees, who acquire under the 2021 Executive-Regulation framework that expressly extends the nominated categories to 'their spouses and children'. The defining structural features are gender-conditioned spousal derivation (wife only — the statute provides no derivative route for the foreign husband of a naturalized woman, mirroring the Art 3 marriage asymmetry), a renunciation condition on the wife (Art 10, reinforced by Art 11/Art 12 Bis(1)), and a minor-child election right pinned to the age of majority of 21 Gregorian years (Art 1 Bis). As of 2026-06 the route is operative_today=true and rests on a statute continuously in force since 28/12/1972 (Art 10 base, amended via Law 1/1975 and consolidated through Decree-Law 16/2017).

AE-NAT-03 has no statutory waiting period of its own — this is its defining temporal contrast with the Art 3 direct foreign-wife route (AE-MAR-01), which requires 7 years (with one or more children) or 10 years (no children) from application before a foreign wife may be granted nationality. The derivative route attaches to the principal's naturalization, so the relevant 'clock' is the principal's qualifying residence (Art 5-8 legacy tiers: 3/7/30-year horizons; or the residence-waiving Art 9 nomination grant). Once the principal is naturalized, the wife's and minor children's derivative status arises around that grant without a separate years-count. The only statutory time figures that bear on the route are downstream: (1) Art 9(para 3)/Art 44 Bis fix the EFFECTIVE date of a grant as the date of completion of the nationality documents and fulfilment of the Executive-Regulation procedures, and Art 44 Bis caps procedure-completion at 'a maximum period of one year from the date of issuance of such decrees'; and (2) the minor-child ELECTION right runs for exactly one year 'following the date of which they reach the age of majority' (Art 10) — a hard, age-anchored one-year window opening on completion of 21 Gregorian years (Art 1 Bis). No processing-time service standard, fee-payment deadline, or appointment timeline for the derivative application is gazetted in the decoded corpus; Art 45 delegates fees and Art 19 delegates procedure to the Cabinet/Executive Regulation, so no such figure may be asserted (positive disconfirmation, /E3-026). All temporal statements are as of 2026-06, on a statute in force since 28/12/1972 with the Art 1 Bis majority definition in force since 29/09/2017.

The primary statutory basis is Article 10 of Federal Law No. 17 of 1972: 'The wife of a national by naturalization shall be considered as national by naturalization if she renounces her nationality of origin. Minor children of a national by naturalization shall also be considered nationals by naturalization, and they may decide to choose their nationality of origin during the year following the date of which they reach the age of majority' (Art 10). Three further articles operationalize the route. Article 1 Bis (inserted by Federal Decree-Law No. 16 of 2017) supplies the controlling definitions: 'Minor: Anyone who has not reached the age of majority' and 'Age of majority: Completion of twenty-one Gregorian years' (Art 1 Bis) — fixing both who counts as a 'minor child' for derivative acquisition and the trigger date for the election right. Article 11 ('No one may be naturalized without renouncing the nationality of origin') and Article 12 Bis(1) ('He/she shall renounce his/her nationality of origin or any other nationality he/she holds') are the renunciation backbone that the Art 10 wife-clause ('if she renounces her nationality of origin') tracks. Constitutionally, the route sits within the exclusive federal competence over 'the federal nationality, passports, residence and immigration' (Constitution Art 120(16)) and the single-nationality principle (Constitution Art 8: 'The citizens of the UAE shall have a single nationality specified by law'). The grant itself is effected by Federal decree (Art 20), and the Executive Regulations specify procedure (Art 19). The route is distinct from Article 3 (the direct foreign-wife marriage route, AE-MAR-01): Art 3 lets a foreign wife apply on her own footing after 7/10 years, whereas Art 10 attaches the wife's status derivatively to her husband's naturalization (the disambiguation). The amendment footnote 'Article (10, 12 Bis) are added under the Federal Decree-Law No. (16) Of 2017' in the ICP consolidation refers to the consolidation/renumbering of the Art 10/12 Bis cluster; the Art 10 derivative substance pre-dates 2017 (footnoted also as amended under Law 1/1975).