25,000 Deportees Barred Entry, Some Opt for Surgeries From Fingers to Faces

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KUWAIT CITY, Aug 30: After discovering and arresting a number of expatriates who were deported from Kuwait for various reasons and were slapped with entry ban and returned to the country after performing plastic surgeries on their fingers in their countries and forging travel documents, the Ministry of Interior decided to clamp down on the fraudsters by not only fingerprinting the deportees, but also taking their biometric fingerprints, reports Al-Rai daily. The daily has learned from security sources that, that based on the instructions of the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Talal Khaled Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah regarding setting up a mechanism to limit the entry of any expatriate who is deported from the country, the General Administration of Deportation will begin, starting from next Sunday, biometric fingerprinting for all male and female deportees.

In this regard, the daily said, security personnel have been trained to take the fingerprints to put an end to any possible form of manipulation that happened earlier. It has been reported that some of the deportees not only do surgeries on their fingers but also perform cosmetic face surgery.

Meanwhile, the sources indicated that the Talha Deportation Center deports those who hold passports directly, while working to coordinate with embassies to obtain documents for expatriates who do not hold passports or whose passports have expired.

Giving a breakdown the ministry said more than 25,000 expatriates of various nationalities have been deported from Jan 1, until date — January: 2,886 (1,502 males – 1,384 females); February: 2,243 (1,300 men – 943 females), March: 3,275 (1,844 men – 1,431 females), April: 2,460 (1,628 men – 832 females), May: 4,054 (2,443 men – 1,611 females), June: 3,364 (1,927 men – 1,437 females), July: 3,561 (1,945 men – 1,616 females) and August: 3,571 (1,990 men – 1,581 females).

In other news, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled on Sunday chaired a meeting during which he received updates on the outcomes of the intensive security and traffic campaigns carried out by various sectors of the Ministry against the violators of residence and labor laws and outlaws, reports Al-Rai daily. The meeting was attended by Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior Lieutenant General Anwar Al-Barjas and assistant undersecretaries. During the meeting the minister emphasized the critical importance of enhancing continuous security and traffic presence across the entire country to promptly address any unfavorable situations and shared a number of observations and directives aimed at activating measures to tackle any violations of the law.

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