Allowing Restricted Group Of Stranded Expats Returning With Prior Approval With Institutional Quarantine

According to aljarida an In informed security source in the General Administration of Residency Affairs at the Ministry of Interior revealed that there is a government approach to address the issue of migrant workers outside the country, in line with the actual need for them.

The source told that the administration has taken a decisive decision to revoke the residency of the expatriate whose residency has expired while outside Kuwait, unless he renewed it in accordance with the measures adopted by the Interior Ministry, pointing out that the number of residency permits that were dropped exceeded 13,500.

He explained that the Council of Ministers, in the context of dealing with the imbalance of the demographics, recently formed a committee to look into the issue of the return of immigrants according to the basis of what the country needs, indicating that the committee first discussed the return of the campaign to establish Article 17 (government work), provided that each government agency submits regulations In the names of the arrivals you wish to return, due to considerations of their actual need.

He added that after completing the aforementioned category, the committee will move to the campaign to establish Article 20 (domestic workers), then Article 18 (private sector).

In parallel, the source mentioned that due to the overcrowding in the deportation prison during the current period, especially the expatriates who are waiting to leave for their countries after their release from the central prison in accordance with the special amnesty, in the framework of reducing the density of inmates, in addition to the large number of detainees in violation of the law inside Police stations, the implementation of extensive security campaigns to arrest the more than 120,000 violators have been postponed.

He pointed out that the “interior” agencies are awaiting the deportation of the released prisoners and the rest of the violators in the stations, after the opening of commercial aviation in the usual way, to launch intensive campaigns to arrest the “residency” violators, and it is likely that these campaigns will start before the end of this year.

And whether the ministry has a tendency to give the violators another deadline, the source said, that matters are not clear, and the matter remains with the Minister of Interior to take what he deems appropriate.

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