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Children of Lebanese women banned from traveling to Lebanon!
9-7-2020
In its issue of today, Al Akhbar drew attention to a newly arising predicament suffered by Lebanese women married to non-Lebanese due to discriminatory policies against them. The newspaper spotlighted two cases of two women married to British and French me , whose children were disallowed from traveling to Lebanon As they do not carry a Lebanese Nationality. In the details, the director of My Nationality is a Right for Me and My Family Campaign, Karima Chebbo, said the Lebanese-French mother has contacted the embassy of Lebanon in Belgium prior to buying the MEA airline ticket and doing all required tests for her and her children only to be informed at Brussels’ airport that she cannot being her two sons, 4 and 6 years, because they don’t have the Lebanese passport and cannot fly with their European passports. Chebbo mentioned a similar case of a Lebanese mother married to a British man who was also prevented from bringing her newborn child to Beirut during the lockdown when Lebanese expats were exclusively allowed to return. The Campaign, Chebbo maintained, has monitored a number of cases of children of Lebanese women married to non-Lebanese who were barred from returning, noting that they are lawfully permanent residents. The EU decision taken to the end of protecting European nationals against a new wave of coronavirus, dealt another blow to Lebanese mothers married to non-Lebanese. They had to endures prejudice and discrimination twice. Recalling, that the two draft laws related to granting the Lebanese mother the right to confer nationality to her family have been approved by the presidency of the legislature pending their submission to the specialized parliamentary committees, according to Chebbo. (Al Akhbar, July 9, 2020)
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