UAE Opens Citizenship to Select Foreigners to Boost Economy

  • Changes overturn decades-old restrictive citizenship policy
  • Gulf states seeking to diversity economies, retain foreigners
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The United Arab Emirates plans to offer citizenship to a select group of foreigners, the first Gulf Arab nation to formalize a process aimed at giving expatriates a bigger stake in the economy.