EXTENSIVE INFORMATION ON KUWAIT RESIDENCE WELCOME

  • 23/03/2022

Kuwait City : The Parliamentary Interior and Defense Committee will consider the draught law addressing foreigners' residence, as well as the draught law modifying Article (8) of Amiri Decree No. 15 of 1959 about the Kuwaiti Nationality Law in relation to the naturalisation of Kuwaiti wives. The Ministry of Interior has submitted a memorandum containing several amendments to foreigners' residency, including the requirement that managers of hotels and furnished residences intended for rent notify the competent authority in the Ministry of Interior about foreigners who stay or leave forty-eight hours before they leave and keep records related to their stay. 


The employees who are authorized by a decision issued by the Minister of Interior shall have the right to inspect the records, and if necessary issue violations and refer the violator to the competent authorities. A decision shall be issued by the Minister of Interior defining the procedures related to this matter. 

According to the amendments' text, the ministry retains its right to grant a foreigner normal residence for a period not exceeding five years, but allows a maximum of ten years residence for children of Kuwaiti women married to foreigners and real estate owners, and the amendments increased the duration of residence for investors to a maximum of fifteen years, which will be determined by the Council of Ministers based on the scope and categories of their investments.

Conditions The Ministry maintained the same requirements in granting visitor visas for a maximum of three months, with the visitor required to leave after that unless he or she obtained a resident permit from the Ministry of Interior. 

The Ministry of the Interior, on the other hand, removed the restriction put on a Kuwaiti lady in order to acquire a residency permit for her foreign husband and children, provided that none of them seek employment in a governmental or non-governmental business.

In the same vein, the revisions maintained the harsh penalties for trafficking in resident permits by exploiting or facilitating foreign recruitment under an entry visa or residence permit, or renewing it in exchange for money or gain, or a promise to do so for oneself or others. The amendments allow the Minister of Interior to allow any time limit for and if he has a residence permit if he believes that the visa traffickers expulsion is required in the public interest, public security, or public morals, provided that there is no legitimate source of earning, and the decision to deport the foreigner includes members of his family "unless it is proven that they can support themselves."

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