After you graduate
Rules read 19 Aug 2026. Check the current rules, this may be out of date
What Lebanon's own immigration authority currently publishes. Not a ranking, not a guarantee, and not the same as what any agent or forum will tell you. Whether someone actually obtains residence depends on occupation, points, funds and policy that can change between application and graduation.
Route to citizenship
Lebanon's Ministry of Interior and Municipalities publishes, on its own news/circulars page, how Lebanese nationality is actually granted in practice: not through an individual application process with published objective eligibility criteria that a foreign resident (graduate or otherwise) could pursue and expect a decision on, but through periodically-issued naturalisation decrees, each one admitting a specific, named list of individuals into Lebanese nationality under Decision No. 15 of 19 January 1925 (as amended) — the country's underlying Nationality Law. The Ministry's own example, Decree No. 2942 of 11 May 2018, illustrates the process's discretionary and security-vetted character: the Ministry's post notes that the decree includes a number of names around which security and judicial suspicions were raised during preliminary investigations, and that verification of this information was, as of the post, still under additional investigation by the Directorate [General Security]. StudyPath found no Ministry of Interior and Municipalities page, nor any page on the General Security website (general-security.gov.lb, the agency responsible for foreigners' residency and visas), describing a standing, criteria-based naturalisation route — length of residence, language, income or otherwise — that an ordinary foreign national, including an international graduate, could apply against. No claim is therefore made about dual nationality or renunciation requirements either, since no such published route exists to attach that detail to.
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“مرسوم رقم 2942 تاريخ 11 أيار 2018 قبول في الجنسية اللبنانية
لتحميل كامل المرسوم أنقر هنا مع الإشارة الى ان هذا المرسوم يتضمن عدد من الأسماء التي أثيرت حولها شبهات أمنية وقضائية في التحقيقات الأولية التي جرت والتي يتم حالياً التدقيق بمدى صحة هذه المعلومات، وذلك من خلال التحقيق الاضافي الذي تقوم به المديرية”
Open the official page ↗New entry added 19 August 2026. One Lebanese government domain accepted as a government source here: moim.gov.lb (Ministry of Interior and Municipalities, the authority responsible for naturalisation decrees). general-security.gov.lb (General Security, the agency responsible for entry visas and residency permits for foreigners) was also researched in depth but not needed as a citation in the end — its actual domain is general-security.gov.lb, not generalsecurity.gov.lb (no hyphen), which returns no results at all and could mislead a future collector; note this for anyone continuing this entry. Its 'Annual Residence' page (general-security.gov.lb/en/posts/241) itemises fee/document requirements for several dependent and income-based residency categories (spouse/child of a worker, parent or sibling of a Lebanese citizen, a religious student, an income/bank-statement-based residency) but has no distinct category for an ordinary international university student or graduate; its visa-type list (general-security.gov.lb/en/posts/159-0) does confirm a distinct '223- Student visa' entry-visa category exists (separate from '224- a student in religion'), but StudyPath could not extract the specific document/work-rights requirements attached to that code from the page's table markup, and no General Security page was found stating a work-during-study hours entitlement or a distinct post-study work/job-search permit. workDuringStudy, postStudyWork and residencyRoute are therefore all left null — recorded as an absence of found information via these two authorities, not a confirmed 'no'. The base Nationality Law text itself (Decision No. 15 of 19 January 1925, as amended) was actively sought on moim.gov.lb — the domain hosts only a scanned, non-text-layer PDF of a specific 2018 naturalisation decree (moim.gov.lb/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/tejnis.pdf, confirmed via pdftotext returning empty output) rather than the underlying law's numbered articles — and a further attempt to reach the Lebanese University's public legal-informatics portal (legallaw.ul.edu.lb, a state university's official legislative database, hosting a readable copy per its DuckDuckGo search snippet) failed with a direct connection refusal from this environment, confirmed via curl ('Could not connect to server'), so that source could not be verified or cited even had its domain been considered in scope for StudyPath’s government/immigration-authority-only rule. naturalisationStatus set to 'no-published-route': the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities' own site shows Lebanese nationality being granted through discretionary, security-vetted, individually-named Council of Ministers decrees rather than any published application procedure or objective eligibility criteria a foreign graduate could pursue — a genuine, evidenced absence of a published route, per the doc comment on ResidencyPathway.naturalisationStatus, not an assumption from silence. citizenshipTerms records route descent-only, which is the value this schema pairs with the naturalisationStatus of no-published-route already recorded above, and the two must agree. It is used here in its schema sense — no route an unrelated foreign resident could follow — rather than as a claim that Lebanese nationality passes only by family: the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities publishes naturalisation as periodic decrees admitting specific named individuals under Decision No. 15 of 19 January 1925, with no standing residence, language or income criteria to apply against, so there is no period to record and no renunciation rule attached to a route that does not exist in published form.
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