KUWAIT CITY, Jan 27: Statistics issued by the Directorate General of Immigra-tion for 2012 shows 93,000 residents in Kuwait are violating the residence law, reports Al-Qabas daily quoting inform-ed security sources.

The sources added out of these 38,000 are domestic servants. The sources noted the General-Directorate of Immigration in collaboration with the General Administration of Information Systems, has retrieved the files of all the residence law violators.

The sources added this serious information came as a surprise because the offenders are refusing to leave the country in spite of several grace periods given by the government to either regularize their situation or leave the country without paying fines.

The sources say it is surprising these people have managed to dodge the police and their checkpoints because they seem to be moving about freely.

The sources added, this phenomenon can be stopped only by getting rid of visa traders. Otherwise, searching for offenders will not yield any results.

The sources stressed the ministries of Social Affairs and Labor and Interior must intensify efforts to look for visa traders and unearth those who own fake companies.

The sources added people of 12 nationalities are violators of residence laws. At the top of the list are the Bangladeshis, with 24,000; in second place are the Indians, 22,000; Sri Lankan 14,000; Indonesians 8,000; Egyptians 7,000; Filipinos 6,000. There are also 3,000 each Nepalese and Syrians.