Kuwait seeks to amend residency law to reduce expat workers – Saudi Gazette

Kuwait seeks to amend residency law to reduce expat workers – Saudi Gazette

Saudi Gazette report

KUWAIT CITY “” In yet another move aimed at reducing the number of expatriates in the country, Kuwait's Ministry of Interior is set to submit a draft law to the parliament, proposing changes to the county's residency law, Kuwait Times, a leading English-language daily, reported on Sunday.According to the report, Kuwait's Deputy Prime Minister Anas Al-Saleh, who is also the interior minister, said on the national television on Saturday that the government has completed a draft law, proposing to "upgrade the residency law“, which will be sent to the parliament within the next two weeks.It comes at a time when the parliament is finalizing legislation to facilitate the reduction of expatriates in the country. The proposed law seeks to draw from experiences in neighboring and advanced countries with an aim to retain only those expatriates who the country needs, the interior minister was quoted as saying without elaborating it. The minister's statement is seen as a clear reference to the government's intention to reduce the number of expatriates in the country, the report claimed.Meanwhile, the parliament speaker, Marzouq Al-Ghanem, was also quoted as saying that he and a group of lawmakers would submit a comprehensive bill calling for