'FAMILY VISIT VISA FOR 3 MONTHS, NON RENEWABLE' IS THE BILL'S GOAL FOR VISA PEDDLERS

  • 30/05/2022

Kuwait City: Sa'adoun Hammad, the chairman of the parliament's Interior and Defense Affairs Committee, said the bill modifying the legislation on expatriates' residency is focused at combating residency traffickers. He said that the draught aims to increase the punishment for residency traffickers to a maximum of five years in prison and a fine of KD 10,000.


Articles 18 and 28 of the bill, according to MP Hammad, impose the aforementioned penalties, which are doubled if the convicted is a public sector official and if the same act is committed more than once. 

Regarding family visit visa, MP Hammad explained that its maximum term is only three months and is nonrenewable. Extending the visit to one year is only available to companies that bring workers to Kuwait on commercial visit visas, and then have to extend the term and transfer the residency later.

Regarding the five-year residency, the lawmaker said expatriates’ residencies can be renewed at the end of the five-year term, adding that the ten-year residency for the children of Kuwaiti women and the 15-year residency for the owners of real estate in Kuwait and the foreign investors can also be renewed. He explained that, according to the bill, the transfer of domestic workers and those in similar positions is not allowed without the approval of their employers. 

Domestic employees are also not permitted to leave Kuwait for longer than four months unless they acquire a permit from the Ministry of Interior before the end of the four-month period; otherwise, their residency would be revoked. In other news, MP Osama Al-Shaheen has sent questions about the weekend fuel station overcrowding to Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Oil, and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Muhammad Al-Fares.

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