[1] On 12 November 2015, the Parliament of Lebanon approved a draft law that would allow "foreigners of Lebanese origin to get citizenship.

"[2] On 5 May 2016, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants Gebran Bassil announced the beginning of the implementation of citizenship law for Lebanese diaspora.

[3][additional citation(s) needed] Citizens of Lebanon have by law the legal right to: All Lebanese citizens are required by law, when decided by the Lebanese government, to bear arms on behalf of Lebanon, to perform noncombatant service in the Lebanese Armed Forces, or to perform work of national importance under civilian direction.

However, if a woman citizen gives birth and nobody claims paternity over the child, the child in question can be incorporated into the maternal grandfather’s family serial number (thus be assigned to his personal status and sect) and consequently be eligible for citizenship.

Military service, the most likely problem to arise, is usually done in the country where the person resides at the time of conscription.

[13][14] On 7 November 2015, Gebran Bassil, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, "refused to compromise on a draft law that would grant citizenship to the descendants of Lebanese expatriates by expanding it to include the foreign spouses and children of Lebanese women".

[citation needed] On 5 May 2016, the Gebran Bassil, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants announced the beginning of the implementation of citizenship law for Lebanese diaspora.

[citation needed] Article I [16][14][3] Every natural person who meets one of the two eligibility requirements has the right to reclaim his/her Lebanese nationality.

Article II [16][14][3] This law intends to verify the “actual presence of Lebanese relatives in the town, village or neighborhood,” which an individual would claim, including the degree of kinship, along with any ownership/holding of rights to real property that may have been “devised, bequeathed, or inherited from a Lebanese citizen.” Although bureaucratic in nature, this aspect of the law was meant to encourage associations with the land, a defining feature of Lebanese nationality.

Excessive restrictions are in place on granting of Lebanese citizenship due to the importance of the country's demographics in the political system.

[22] In 2017, a census by the Lebanese government counted 174,000 Palestinians in Lebanon,[25] but other sources estimate the number as high as 400,000.

On 1 June 2018, the notoriously anti-naturalization Lebanese president, Michel Aoun signed a naturalization decree granting citizenship to a reported 300 individuals.

[26] These individuals come for various backgrounds and religions, however all of them are in one way wealthy and have ties to Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad.