שכבת מעמד ל"בידון" (תושבים חסרי אזרחות)

Because AE-SPC-01 is an overlay, 'eligibility' must be split across the two tracks. On the CITIZENSHIP track, a Bidoon individual is NOT eligible by virtue of Bidoon status itself; eligibility arises only if the person independently satisfies a general acquisition rule of Law 17/1972. The realistic candidates are: (1) Art 2(a) — an Arab individual able to PROVE that they (or, via the 'ancestors' residence.. complementary' clause, their forebears) resided continuously in a member Emirate in or before 1925 through to the law's 1972 effective date; this is a by-operation-of-law claim, not a discretionary grant, but it is evidentiarily severe for an undocumented population (assert, context); and (2) Art 9 — inclusion in a discretionary Presidential decree granting nationality without regard to residence, which is the channel through which the 2008 MOI committee operated, but which creates no enforceable individual right. On the PROTECTION/identity track, 'eligibility' means access to documentation/residency/welfare measures administered by the MOI committee and related bodies; this confers civil-registration and identity benefits but expressly NOT nationality. There is NO Bidoon-specific statutory eligibility criterion — no residence-years tier, no quota, no automatic registration-to-naturalisation conversion. Any individual outcome depends on discretionary administrative assessment and the strength of historical-residence evidence, both outside the four corners of the statute.

No statutory timeline governs Bidoon processing, and none may be invented. The hard temporal anchors are historical and administrative, not procedural-duration figures: the Art 2(a) residence cutoff is 1925 (continuous residence in/before that year to the 1972 effective date); Federal Law 17/1972 came into force 28/12/1972 (Art 46); the undocumented-Bedouin population crystallised as de-facto stateless across the oil-era consolidation following Law 10/1975 (era AE-E10); and the MOI Bidoon naturalisation/registration committee was established 06/09/2008 (era AE-E13, running to the 2017 reform boundary). For any individual case, processing duration, decision timelines, and grant cadence are NOT fixed in the statute: Art 45 delegates such matters to the Cabinet/Executive Regulation and no figure is gazetted in the decoded corpus, so any specific processing-time claim would be a fabrication and is positively disconfirmed (cf.). The only statutory time-bound figure adjacent to discretionary grants is Art 44 Bis (Authority to complete procedures within a maximum of one year from the date of issuance of a granting decree), but that governs the back-end administration of an already-issued decree, not the front-end Bidoon assessment. Net: timeline is indeterminate and discretionary; only the historical/era anchors are assertible.

The Bidoon overlay has no bespoke statute; its legal contours are drawn entirely by the general provisions of Federal Law No. 17 of 1972 (consolidated, as amended by Law 10/1975 and Decree-Law 16/2017) read against the Constitution. The CITIZENSHIP-track anchors are: Art 2(a) — 'Every Arab individual who was residing in a member Emirate in 1925 or before and who continued to reside therein until the effective date of this law' acquires nationality by operation of law, with 'Ancestors' residence.. deemed complementary to descendants' residence'; and Art 9 — 'The president of the State may issue a decree.. granting [nationality] by naturalization to any person without regard to the residence periods and the conditions set forth' (the discretionary, residence-blind grant). By contrast, the ordinary descent provisions DO NOT assist a typical Bidoon: Art 2(b) (paternal jus sanguinis) requires an established UAE-national father, and Art 2(c)/(d) (maternal by operation of law) require an established UAE-national mother where the father is unknown/stateless/unsubstantiated — the defining feature of Bidoon status is precisely the INABILITY to establish such a national parent (assert ). Constitutionally, nationality is an exclusive federal competence (Art 120(16): 'The federal nationality, passports, residence and immigration'; Art 8: 'a single nationality specified by law'), so no individual emirate can regularise a Bidoon's nationality; only the federal grant chain (Cabinet/President by Federal decree, Art 20) can. The PROTECTION track has no nationality-conferring legal basis at all — it rests on administrative measures (the 2008 MOI committee; identity/residency documentation) rather than on Law 17/1972.