Sponsors allowed to renew residence of stranded expats

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CABINET DECIDES TO KEEP SCHOOLS CLOSED UNTIL MARCH 26

KUWAIT CITY, March 9, (Agencies): Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Anas Khaled Al-Saleh and Undersecretary of the Ministry Issam Salem Al-Nahham have given instructions to concerned ministry departments to ease the suffering of expatriates who are stranded outside the country following the outbreak of the coronavirus taking into account the humanitarian aspect of the situation, reports Al-Rai daily.

Major-General Talal Ma’arafi, Assistant Undersecretary for Residence Affairs at the Ministry of Interior said upon instructions of the minister and in coordination with the ministries of Interior and Health and the Public Authority for Civil Information sponsors or company representatives can now renew the residence permit of private sector (Article 18) who are stranded in their home countries or elsewhere provided the passport of the employee is valid.

Major-General Ma’arafi also stated the same applies to domestic workers Article (20) if they are outside the country. Their sponsors can get the residence permit renewed by visiting the service centers and completing the formalities.

Ma’arafi stated this is also applicable to dependents. In all cases the passport must be valid. If the head of family is outside the State of Kuwait, the wife and children will be granted temporary residence in accordance with the established rules and conditions. For this, the head of the family must visit the residence affairs department with relevant documents.

For those on visit visa it has been decided to extend all visit visas for two months and to extend the leave of absence for three months, which can be renewed depending on circumstances. He stated this rule is applicable for the following countries — India, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the Philippines, China, Hong Kong, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Thailand, Italy, South Korea, Japan and Singapore.

School closure extended
Kuwait’s Cabinet has decided to keep schools closed until March 26, said the government’s offi- cial spokesman Tareq Al-Merzem, amid a rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak.

The extension will come into effect on March 15 until March 26, he added, describing the measure as a safety precaution given the spread of the contagion. State of Kuwait “respects” decisions by some countries to ban entry of Kuwaiti citizens due to the spread of coronavirus, Ministry of Health (MoH) said Monday, as the country registered a new case to raise COVID-19 infectees’ number to 65.
MoH spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad, at his daily press briefing at the ministry building, said the new case was one of those people returning from Iran. All coronavirus infectees are being treated in hospital, said Al-Sanad, while three patients were placed in the intensive care unit, one in critical condition. He reaffirmed that a medical team was taking care of all 906 people placed in quarantine.

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