KUWAIT CITY, Nov 15: The Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor is planning to allow the transfer of commercial visit visas to work permits from the beginning of year 2012, Al-Dar daily quoted reliable sources as saying. Such transfers were suspended for a period more than three months.

Recently, the ministry announced its decision to freshly start the granting of work permits from the beginning of next year, sources said, adding it also agreed to grant more facilities to major companies in this regard.