Short-lived joy of ‘60s’ Palestinians – 250 + 500 fees ‘mandatory’
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KUWAIT CITY, Feb 8: The joy of the Palestinians living in Kuwait – non-graduates who are 60 years and above – face a new difficulty in renewing their work permits because they are not exempted from paying the fees because they do not hold the original Palestinian documents, reports Al-Qabas daily. The daily added, those Palestinians who are exempted from paying the 250 dinars residence fee and the 500 dinars insurance fee are only those who hold original Palestinian documents. It is reported a majority of the Palestinians living and working in Kuwait hold travel documents of various Arab countries such as temporary Jordanian passports and travel documents issued by Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon. Despite the decision excluding Palestinians from document holders, these Palestinian residents are not covered by the renewal
Temporary
The daily said Jordanian temporary passports, according to the website of the Jordanian Civil Status and Passports Department, are issued to residents of the West Bank who do not have a national number, in addition to residents of the Gaza Strip residing in Jordan to whom the conditions are applied. Meanwhile, the insurance companies listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange have reportedly started issuing insurance policy documents for non-graduate expatriates 60 years and above, reports Al-Rai daily. The daily added, the Warba Insurance Company was one of the first companies to issue the insurance policy for this category of expatriates in line with the decision issued by the concerned authorities. The daily said there was a rush to buy insurance policies by the non-graduate sixty-year-olds to get their work permits renewed. The Warba Insurance Company said the document is called ‘Tayeb’ and so far a big number of this category expats have purchased the insurance policies for 500 dinars – the price decided by the authorities.
Development
In another development, days after resolving the issue of insurance policy to renew the work permits of non-graduate expatriates who are 60 years and above, the lack of government coordination put a stop to the transactions, as the Public Authority for Manpower refused to renew work permits for this category of expatriates who hold health insurance policies issued by companies not listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange and not approved by the Insurance Regulatory Unit (IRU), reports Al-Qabas daily. Informed sources told the daily PAM refused to accept the documents issued by the unlisted insurance companies, and stuck to its previous decision (the list of 11 companies approved by the IRU). For its part, sources at PAM said it is committed to implementing the decision of its board of directors until a decision is issued to amend and cancel the condition of issuing the document by an unlisted company, and in the absence of coordination between government agencies, the fate of the documents issued by unlisted insurance companies is unknown. The sources expect another circular to be issued this week to the labor administrations, allowing the non-graduates sixties category to transfer within the private sector, as it was in the past. The sources added, this category of people who have families in the country and children with Article 18 residence can transfer from the private sector to the family sector after obtaining a waiver from the company.
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