Valid Driving Licenses For 66,584 Expats Were Revoked

Based on the recommendations of the Committee for "Examining the issued driving licenses and ensuring that they comply with the conditions of the organizing ministerial decisions," the Ministry of Interior cancelled 66,584 valid driving licenses for residents whose residency has been permanently revoked. Indicating that further ministerial decisions will be issued within the same framework later, other ministerial decisions will follow.

According to the ministry, the committee continues to examine issued licenses to ensure that they meet ministerial requirements, and as soon as the committee issues its recommendations, ministerial decisions will be issued.

Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled, First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Interior, and Acting Minister of Defense, issued Ministerial Resolution No. 277/2023 regarding the establishment of a committee to examine issued driving licenses and ensure they are in compliance with the requirements stipulated in Ministerial Resolution No. 270 of 2020 regarding amending some provisions of Ministerial Resolution No. 81/1976, the traffic law executive regulations.

The initial recommendations of the formed committee came after the committee concluded that there are 66,584 valid licenses for workers whose residency has been canceled as a result of death or their absence from the the country, and accordingly all those valid licenses have been canceled through the regulations, and when the resident returns to Kuwait again, he takes the procedures for obtaining a new license without renewing it if it fulfills the conditions for entitlement to a driving licence.

 

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