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Maj Gen Ali Al-Adwani

Kuwait reviewing visit visa fees

KUWAIT: An interior ministry committee is reviewing fees for visit visas with the aim of applying reciprocal treatment with foreign countries and also allowing expats to bring in their relatives for longer periods, the head of the residency and nationality department said. In the new residency law, recently issued in an Amiri decree, fees on all services offered by the ministry can be changed by the minister, unlike previously when the law needed...

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Curbs on 60+ expats scrapped

KUWAIT: The Public Authority of Manpower announced on Wednesday that all restrictions imposed on expats aged over 60 years have been scrapped and they will now pay regular fees to obtain work permits and renew their residencies. Expatriates aged 60 years old and above without a university degree were required to pay a special fee of KD 250 annually and obtain a comprehensive health insurance policy from a private sector insurer costing at least...

Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah

1,758 more stripped of citizenship; women to keep jobs, pension

KUWAIT: A section of Kuwaiti women who lost their citizenship will keep their jobs at the same pay and if retired will continue to receive their pension, the interior minister said Thursday, as 1,758 more Kuwaitis has their citizenship revoked. “Wives of Kuwaitis, divorced women and widows who had their citizenship withdrawn and still live in Kuwait will keep their jobs and same salaries,” Acting Prime Minister and Interior and Defense...

Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah

Curbs on 60+ expats a ‘disgrace’

KUWAIT: Acting Prime Minister and Interior and Defense Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah harshly criticized restrictions imposed on expats aged 60 and above, describing such rules as a “disgrace in Kuwait’s humanitarian history”. “The decision regarding expats who are over 60 years old employed in the private and government sectors is a disgrace in Kuwait’s humanitarian history,” the minister told Al-Jarida daily in an...

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Committee strips Kuwaiti citizenship of 1,647 individuals

KUWAIT: The Supreme Commission for Nationality on Thursday decided to strip as many as 1,647 Kuwaitis of their citizenship, the interior ministry announced, with the total number of citizens who lost their nationality topping 5,000. Decisions of the commission are sent to the Cabinet for approval, which has so far approved all previous decisions taken since the drive began in May.The interior ministry said in a statement on Thursday the decision...

KUWAIT:Officers monitor traffic camera feeds in this illustrative file photo. - KUNA

AI traffic cameras monitor violations as fines increase

KUWAIT: The traffic department has started installing advanced artificial intelligence-aided cameras to catch drivers using mobile phones and those not wearing seatbelts, a traffic department official said on Sunday. Lt Col Abdullah Buhasan, deputy director of the traffic awareness department, told Kuwait Television that as many as 252 cameras will be installed. He said that several cameras have already been installed and “are...

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Commission strips Kuwaiti citizenship of 1,535 individuals

KUWAIT: The Supreme Commission for Nationality on Thursday decided to revoke the citizenship of 1,535 Kuwaitis, an official statement said, hiking the number of those who have been stripped of their nationality to close to 3,000 in just the past two weeks. The commission has been meeting weekly during the past two months and last week it revoked the citizenship of 930 Kuwaitis.The interior ministry said in a statement on Thursday the decision was...

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Court upholds chamber law

KUWAIT: The constitutional court on Wednesday rejected petitions against a law changing the status of the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry as an independent body, confirming that the legislation did not violate the constitution. The National Assembly late last year passed a law making the chamber a department under the ministry of commerce and industry.The court, whose rulings are final, said that the legislation “did not breach...

New Chief of Kuwait National Guard Sheikh Mubarak Homoud Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

Cabinet OKs draft residency law, new National Guard chief

KUWAIT: The Cabinet on Tuesday approved a new draft residency law which includes major changes from the existing 60-year-old legislation and toughens penalties on violators, in addition to banning giving shelter to illegal expats, an official statement said. The approval came during the Cabinet’s weekly meeting headed by Acting Prime Minister and Interior and Defense Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah. It becomes effective only after HH...

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Kuwait posts midyear surplus

KUWAIT: Kuwait posted a budget surplus of KD 150.4 million in the first half of the 2024/2025 fiscal year, compared to a deficit of KD 1.45 billion in the first six months of last fiscal year, according to figures released by the Ministry of Finance on Tuesday. The return to windfall was the result of a combined increase in revenues and a drop in spending, the ministry figures showed.Revenues realized in the first six months from April 1 to...

KUWAIT: (Left) HH the Amir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah at Bayan Palace on Oct 29, 2024. New Oil MInister Tareq Al-Roumi (center) and new Education Minister Jalal Al-Tabtabaei (right) take the oath of office before HH the Amir. - KUNA

New education, oil ministers named

KUWAIT: An Amiri decree was issued on Tuesday appointing new education and oil ministers to complete the Cabinet line-up, as the two posts were being held by the minister of higher education and minister of finance respectively on a temporary basis. Jalal Al-Tabtabaei, 57, a long-serving bureaucrat at the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, was appointed education minister after the post was held by the higher education minister...

Assistant Undersecretary for Traffic and Operation Affairs Major General Yousef Al-Khadda

Expats will no longer own more than one vehicle under new law

KUWAIT: Expatriates will no longer be allowed to own more than one vehicle under a new traffic law to be implemented soon, announced a top Interior Ministry official on Thursday, adding that fines and penalties will be increased dramatically to curb rising accidents. “The new law stipulates that expat’s ownership is only one vehicle,” Assistant Undersecretary for Traffic Affairs and Operations, Major-General Yousef Al-Khaddah, told KUNA in...

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