A friend asks, Is it permissible to obtain citizenship of a non-Muslim country not to settle there but because its passport makes it easier to relocate permanently to a Gulf country, given that his current passport is too weak to do so?

Ustadh AbdulAziz al-Haqqan

If there is no fitnah for him and he is able to practice his religion publicly and stay away from that which is forbidde, we can not say it is forbidden. So he gets it and then makes hijrah.