Penalties to be imposed on expat sponsors of visit visa

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KUWAIT CITY, May 28: The Ministry of Interior is planning to impose penalties on some foreign sponsors because the people they brought into the country on visit visas have not left, reports Al- Anba daily. The daily added, as a punishment, theses sponsors will not be issued any kinds of visas, including family visas for a period of two years.

A source stated that these procedures are being studied by the Ministry of Interior based on instructions from the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Lieutenant- General (Retd) Sheikh Ahmed Al-Nawaf. This came after reports were submitted to him by the Residence Affairs Sector, headed by Brigadier General Walid Al- Tarawa, which disclosed that 14,653 expatriates entered on visit visas during the past three years until the first of May 2022 and did not leave.

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