KUWAIT: Deputy
Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Khalid Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah has
issued a decision increasing the minimum salary to obtain a family visa to KD
500. The decision amends a previous directive which stipulated that the minimum
salary for family visas should be KD 450. The decision added the director
general of residency affairs can exempt those already in Kuwait or born here
from the salary condition.

The decision also
exempts the following professions: Advisors, judges, members of the
prosecution, experts and legal researchers in the public sector; doctors and
pharmacists; teachers at universities, colleges and higher education
institutes; school principals, vice-principals, supervisors, teachers, social
workers and laboratory technicians in the public sector; university financial
and economic experts; engineers; imams and muezzins; library rectors; health
ministry employees (nurses, paramedics, technicians and social service workers;
social workers in the government; journalists, media persons and reporters;
coaches and players at sports clubs; pilots and flight attendants; funerary
workers. - Al-Anbaa