Director of the General Department of Residence Affairs Investigations, Brigadier General Meshal Al-Shanfa, confirmed that the new foreigners’ residency law, which is expected to be implemented next March, carries deterrent penalties that will largely eliminate violations, pointing out that the crime of trafficking in residency, or “taking money in exchange for residency,” has been transformed into It was turned into a felony after it had previously been a misdemeanor, and its penalty was increased to 5 years in prison, in addition to a fine of up to 10,000 dinars for each worker.
Al-Shanfa told Al-Jarida that the new law stipulates that this penalty be increased as the number of violating workers increases, and that it be doubled if the trafficker is a public employee who benefits from his position, indicating that Kuwait has some human trafficking cases, “but they are few, and this year they are almost “None.”
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